PASSIVE VOICE:  Introduction Part 2

Introduction

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In today's lesson we continue our unit on PASSIVE VOICE.  If you'd like to take a look back on Passive Voice Part 1, please click here.

When can passive voice be used?

 

When looking at the active voice sentence, if there is no object of the verb (S-V), then we can only use active voice.

But if there is an object of the verb (S-V-O), then we have a choice: We can use active voice or we can use passive voice. 

In this latter case, how do we know which one to use?

In our next lesson, we ask the question "When can passive voice be used?" and "When should passive voice be used?" and give lots of examples.


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