16 Tenses
Active sentence (active voice) is a sentence where the subject of his work, by contrast, passive sentence (passive voice) is a sentence where the subject was subjected to the job by the object of the sentence. Active voice is more often used in daily life compared with the passive voice. However, often we find the passive voice in the newspapers, articles in magazines and scholarly writings. Passive voice is used because the object of the active voice is more important information than his subject. Example : Active : We fertilize the soil every 6 months. Passive: The soil is fertilized by us every 6 months. From this example we can see that: 1. Object of the active voice (the soil) becomes the subject of the passive voice 2. Subject of the active voice (we) became the object of the passive voice. Note also that there is a change of subject pronoun 'We' became the object pronoun 'us'. 3. Verb1 (fert...