Active and Passive Voice

1. Uses

1.1. The active voice focuses on the person who does the action.

1.2. The passive voice focuses on the receiver or the result of the action.

2. Forms

2.1. Affirmative

2.2. Negative

2.3. Yes/No Questions

2.4. Short Answer

2.5. Wh-Question

2.6. Subject Question

3. Verbs with Two Objects

3.1. a direct object (D.O.) and an indirect object (I.O.)

3.2. When an active sentence has two objects, the passive sentence can begin with either object

4. Agent/Doer

4.1. With Agent

4.1.1. Same Subject of the preceding sentences

4.1.2. Specific Subject (Proper Noun)

4.1.3. Object is being emphasis

4.1.4. It uses verbs such as made, discovered, invented, designed, built, wrote, painted, or composed.

4.1.5. by + noun or object pronoun

4.2. Without Agent

4.2.1. Doer of the action is not important

4.2.2. The doer is UNKNOWN

4.2.3. Prefer NOT to mention the doer

4.2.4. Doer is obvious on the sentence

4.2.5. It uses impersonal subjects such as people, you, we or they

5. Definition

5.1. Voice

5.1.1. Active Voice

5.1.2. Passive Voice

6. Verb Tenses

6.1. Simple

6.2. Past

6.3. Future

6.4. Present Continuous

6.5. Past Continuous

6.6. Present Perfect

6.7. Modal

7. Transitive and Intransitive Verb

7.1. Transitive Verbs

7.1.1. WITH object

7.1.2. Can be use in both active and passive voice

7.2. Intransitive Verbs

7.2.1. WITHOUT object

7.2.2. Cannot use for Passive voice

7.3. Some verbs can be both transitive and intransitive verb depending on its meaning.

7.3.1. Leave

7.3.2. Change

7.3.3. Move