Difference Between Active And Passive Voice

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1. ------------------------------------------------- First, it is important to know what passive and active sentences are before any comparisons can be drawn. Passive and active sentences are incredibly useful to the study of persuasive and/or emotive writing, and are a typical feature of newspaper reports. * For example, an active sentence may be, "The man helped the girl", whereas the passive equivalent would be, "The girl was helped (by the man)". It is the writer's deliberate variation between these sentences that allows them to mould their reader to interpret their words in their desired way. If the writer uses the passive form ("The girl was helped"), he clearly aims for his audience to immediately sympathise with the girl and the way she's been treated or a example of the girl being helped . On the other hand, if the man is foregrounded in the sentence (as in the active form,"The man helped the girl"), the treating or the behavior of the man takes place in this sentence, but on after all this is the natural sight of the man "helping the girl" so we can understand that the man helped the girl in his natural behavior. this sentence can be also be told like"the girl was helped by the man'".this sentence makes the same meaning as the other but in a different way.this is changed into active voice. This is why the distinction between passive and active sentences are so necessary in newspaper reports, as they help to convey the meaning. 2. ------------------------------------------------- 2 ------------------------------------------------- Once you have explained a passive or active sentence has been used, it is then necessary for you to explain why the sentence is passive or active. This is where it gets complicated. As you probably know, if you're studying English, average, simple sentences consist of a combination of three things: subject, verb, and
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