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by Ruch12345 » Thu Jul 14, 2011 4:07 pm
We say that in the passive voice, subject has action performed on it by someone or something else.

Active voice: The hungry students ate the pizza.
Verb: ate
Who/what did the eating : hungry students
So, hungry students is the subject in this case.

Passive voice: The pizza was eaten by hungry students.
Verb: was eaten
Who/what was eaten : Pizza
Isn't pizza the subject in this case
Also, the subjects are never objects of preposition, by is the preposition in this case, so how can we say that the subject is pizza

Since the subject cant be pizza , so how do we identify passive voice.
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by VivianKerr » Thu Jul 14, 2011 6:16 pm
The "active voice" construction goes in this order: Subject, Verb, Object.

Subject: the students
Verb: ate
Object: the pizza

The "passive voice" construction goes in this order: Object, Verb, Subject.

The subject is who or what is DOING the action of the verb. Just because you switch the order of the pieces of the sentence around, doesn't mean the subject changes. The subject is still the "students" since they are logically doing the verb "to eat".

You can identify "passive voice" because it incorrectly puts the Object (the thing receiving the action) first.
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