Passive and Active voices. Introduction

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For sentences in the Active voice, the subject performs the action. However, for sentences in the Passive voice the action is performed on the subject, that is, the subject receives the action.

Here we have two easy examples to begin with

Active: Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa

Passive: The Mona Lisa was painted by Da Vinci

As you can see, the object on the active sentences (the Mona Lisa) performs as the subject on the passive one

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