Comments on: Passive vs. Active Voice

By: Avtar kaur

Avtar kaur — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:09:50 +0000

I always get confused to make passive sentences.It makes me confuse while speaking.

By: Asad Jang

Asad Jang — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:02:37 +0000

To yash:
All are wrong :1st Sentence:Verb in this sentence is intrasitive and intransitive verb can’t be changed into passive.
2nd sentence:Verb in this senctence is transitive but the aditional WITH has changed the sentence.so can’t be changed.
3rd:same like Sentence No.1st.

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By: Yash

Yash — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:02:44 +0000

Different topic: Did the writer really start out this article by saying “English teachers like myself…”?

Please clarify the usage of “myself” here instead of “me”.

Thanks!

By: Yash

Yash — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:01:19 +0000

To roshan ali:

The school is gone to by me.

The pen is written with by me.

The water is swum in by me.

Obviously, ridiculous. But it illustrates by its extremeness the basic problem Elkit alluded to above: the issue of responsibility. The passive voice makes the wrong noun the “actor” or subject– if not really the actor, then at least the focus of the sentence. This usage deflects responsibility from the real actor/subject. That’s what it is about passive voice that weakens the writing.