Drag each item to the correct location to compare when you would use active voice and when you would use passive voice in a sentence.

Question

1. Active voice
2. Passive voice

a. when the subject of the sentence performed an action
b. when you want to emphasize a thing that was acted upon
c. when you don't know who performed an action
d. when you want to emphasize who performed an action

Answer 1

Here is the correct comparison for active voice and passive voice:

1. Active voice

   • a. when the subject of the sentence performed an action
   • d. when you want to emphasize who performed an action

2. Passive voice

   • b. when you want to emphasize a thing that was acted upon
   • c. when you don't know who performed an action