Passive Voice
As its name suggests, passive voice is a weak grammatical construction. In a sentence passive voice suggests that action happens to an object rather than an object enacting an action to something else. Some typical examples of passive verbs: be, am, is, are, was, were, being, and been. A passive sentence might read like this: Bing Crosby was heard crooning from the radio. This suggests that there’s a person standing just next to the radio listening to Crosby, but this person doesn’t actually exist as someone important.
- Example of Passive Voice: Desirable results were yielded from the experiment.
- Example of Active Voice: The experiment yielded desirable results.
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