Sentences in passive voice

20 sentences in passive voice from newspaper 1 passive meaning 2 headlines in passive voice examples 3 active and passive voice in newspaper articles 4 The passive voice is your friend when the thing receiving an action or the action itself is the important part of the sentence—especially in scientific and legal contexts, times when the performer of an action is unknown, or cases where the subject is distracting or irrelevant. 5 The passive voice is used when we want to emphasize the action (the verb) and the object of a. 6 50 Passive Voice Examples. In this post, you will find all the examples of passive voices. 7 1. Myth: Use of the passive voice constitutes a grammatical error. Use of the passive voice is not a grammatical error. It’s a stylistic issue that pertains to clarity—that is, there are times when using the passive voice can prevent a reader from understanding what you mean. 2. Myth: Any use of “to be” (in any form) constitutes the passive voice. 8 This lesson will go over passive voice, which is often used in Norwegian. 9 Practise turning active sentences into passive sentences and passive sentences into active sentences. 10 The first sentence contains a passive construction: ' is said to There are a lot of similar phrases to this which are grammatically passive and are used to talk about reputation or expectation: is said to, is thought to, is believed to, is hoped to etc. 11