Here is another example, but this time in a different tense: The present progressive tense. The agent, however, is not to be mentioned because its effect on the information that the Passive sentence transmits is almost null. (Or) Every night, the piano is played (by Bachir). PASSIVE VOICE: The piano is played by Bachir every night. (Or) Every night, the piano is played.ДЄnd ACTIVE VOICE: Bachir plays the piano every night. PASSIVE VOICE: The piano is played every night. Compare, ACTIVE VOICE: Someone plays the piano every night. On the contrary, if the agent is 'Bach' for instance we have to mention him. However (by someone) is not correct at all because the agent or (the doer) is not known and is adding no information to the sentence. We shouldn't forget about the adverb of time 'every night' to finally have, The piano is played every night. Is it necessary to add anything? Yes, it is. Now the verb play goes directly to take the past participle form i.e.: played because it is a regular verb. No doubt our sentence in the passive will progress this way, The piano is. In this case, 'The piano' must logically choose is because it is the most suitable for it. It is our new subject which decides on the best choice. Thus the verb 'to be ' in the simple present is am, is, or are. What for?! The tense should be taken to the verb plays and given to 'to be'. This should not take time it is a matter of a fraction of a second. We make a quick diagnostic to look for two essential things about it that's to say the verb itself: play and its tense: the simple present. After that we prepare the verb to be for the operation. What we have to do first is to pull the object down to begin our new sentence with. It is the most important part of the utterance to make the operation feasible. And the latter is the organ that gears the whole operation. Take this so called the patient active sentence, for instance, Someone plays the piano every night This sentence is composed of a subject: (someone), a verb: (plays), and an object. He means that the verb to be is always the doctor who can operate on the sentence successfully in a 'passive voice' surgery. It is not an easy work to do, I admit it. But before all let's see what does the active sentence look like before the operation then go to discuss the process the doctor follows during the operation and examine the patient after the operation. The rule says: the object of the active sentence is always the subject of the passive one. Let's make one of the old so missed rules our starting point. We will be back biters for a while, yet I hope in the benefit of both The Passive Voice and our students. Let's enjoy talking about the passive voice in the absence of Mr R.G.R (Rigid Grammar Rule). I think we can go beyond the formal grammar rules and deal with it in the funniest way. And Yoast, a great WordPress plugin for SEO, tells you how many of your sentences are in the passive voice.It is true that the passive voice is most talked about by our students. Popular computer programs such as Microsoft Word analyze your use of the passive voice after you run spell-check. The antiвЂ“passive voice movement is strong (and not without reason). ItвЂ™s proof that some grammar myths are hard to kill. This is why I cringe a little bit when people ask me whatвЂ™s wrong with passive voice. WhatвЂ™s Wrong with Passive Voice? Nothing, in Certain SituationsДЄ passive construction is actually betterВ sometimes. In the second sentence, it actually sounds more natural to remove the agent: In the firstВ sentence above, itвЂ™s fine to omit by the team. Passive constructions oftenВ omit the doer of the action. (Compare this to We serve dinner until 9 pm.) (Compare this to The team submitted the report on Friday.)

The report was submitted by the team on Friday.

But this can be good or bad depending upon what youвЂ™re trying to stress in your writing.

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