What's the difference between active and passive voice? I repair my computer every year, is it A?
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When a sentence is written in the active voice, the subject of the sentence acts. while in the passive voice, the subject receives the action. Active voice; " kelly reviewed my paper" Passive voice; my paper was reviewed by Kelly" It should be noted, however, that an active sentence and a passive sentence each state the same idea but use different word order. For example "the ball was thrown by the pitcher" here the ball is the subject while it was thrown in the passive voice. Finally, it should be noted that every sentence in the passive voice contains 2 verbs that are a conjugated form of "to be" and the main verbs are past participle.
active is when you assert that a particular person does the action (the subject of the sentence performs an action), such as I am kicking the ball. the passive voice, on the other hand, is the object that now becomes the subject such as the ball(subject) is being kicked by me.
- GosiaExperienced ESL teacher / OKE / MA / CELTA examiner
Your sentence is active In the passive voice the agent of the action is not that important as the action itself - A computer is repaired (by me) every Year John eats a banana every day - active A banana is eaten by John every day - passive Important : To construct the sentence we need To be ( in each tense) plus 3rd particple In continuous tense we have To be plus being plus 3rd p But Passive voice is used only in present Continuous and simple present PV is of course more than above so if U need help - do not hestitate to ask questions or join my classes PV is absolutely necessary to know and use as British love it ;)
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Active voice- I ate the sandwich Passive voice- The sandwich was eaten by me.
It is active voice Every year computer is repaired by me ...it is passive voice
When a sentence is in the active voice, we know about the subject of the verb. The boy is playing the guitar. If you ask the question: who is playing the guitar? The answer is ‘The boy’. So active sentences have a known subject. In the passive, however, the subject is not known. For example, ‘The guitar is being played.’ If you ask the question: ‘Who is playing the guitar?’ The answer should be: ‘I don’t know.’ Passive verbs start with the helping verb ‘be’ followed by a past participle. Be [am, is, are, was, were, have been, has been, had been, will be, could be, etc] + past participle.
