This module will first present a brief description of the passive voice and how it is used in English language discourse. Second, it will summarize three seminal research studies into deaf children’s ...

1. The voice of the verb is distinct from its tense. Don't confuse the passive voice with the past tense. (Sentence 2 happens to be in the past tense, but 3 is not; both 2 and 3 are in the passive ...

Voice is a complex issue, but it appears to mark a prominent object that the speaker chooses to make prominent. In English there are two voices: active and passive. The passive voice is the marked ...

Sentences can be described as active or passive. Using the passive voice is a way of writing sentences so that the subject has the action 'done' to it. The passive voice can be useful for making ...

Both describe the same facts. However, in each pair one sentence uses the active voice and one uses the passive voice. Which sentence would you use? That would depend on the tone you wanted to ...

No wonder, then, that many English language users — particularly those who learn it as a second or third language ... One major function of the passive voice is, in fact, to leaven such ...