Passive Voice

Passive Voice

1. Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action

   • It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.
     • My dog was stolen.

2. Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than active voice

   • A mistake was made.
   • makes your writing stronger, more direct,

3. A letter + was written + by Rachel

4. In a passive voice construction, the grammatical subject of the clause receives the action of the verb.