Example 7.3.4. Active Versus Passive Voice.
Here are more sentences written in both active and passive voice, for comparison.
- Active
- “Sally hugged Barbara.”
- Passive
- “Barbara was hugged by Sally.”
- Active
- “I did my homework.”
- Passive
- “My homework was done by me.”
- Active
- “My roommate woke me up as she got ready for crew practice.”
- Passive
- “I was woken up by my roommate as she got ready for crew practice.”
- Active
- “We made mistakes.”
- Passive
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“Mistakes were made.”(Notice how this form completely omits the actor: Who made the mistakes? We don’t know! They just were made. . .)