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

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

Answer 1

Here’s how to categorize the options for active and passive voice:

Active Voice:

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

Passive Voice:

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