All About Adolescent Literacy (Links to an external... Actively Learn ClassHook | Educational Clips from Popular Television and Movies poets.org (Links to an external site.) Passive Voice and Active Voice Passive Voice (Why It is Evil and How to Recognize It.) Two "voices" occur in English grammar: active voice and passive voice. (A) The boy hit the ball. In sentence A, we might ask ourselves, what does the hitting? In sentence B, we might ask ourselves what is the subject? Note: Sometimes the passive voice sentence is necessary when the speaker wants to hide the agent or obscure what occurs. In most other cases, it is better rhetoric to use active voice. (1) Active voice sentences are often more concise than passive voice. The fighter punched Ali and dodged the uppercut. (2) Passive voice requires more "weak" words. The airplane was flown to Bermuda (by the pilot). To be verbs and the prepositions do not add much to the sentence in terms of color. The pilot flew the airplane to Bermuda. Remember, the heart of your sentence beats in its strong verbs, concrete nouns, and vivid description! My car has been driven to Dallas. (By whom? Sixteen thousand calories were consumed in one sitting.
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