The passive voice is an important grammatical structure that appears in every form of written and spoken English. Knowledge of this construction is vital for reading and writing English in everyday ...

This article focuses on the formation, types, and functions of the passive construction in English and Classical Arabic. Syntactically speaking, English has both agentive and agentless passive ...

This handout is also available for download in PDF format. We refer to a sentence as being in the "active voice" when the subject is performing the action of the sentence (the verb). A sentence is in ...