Passive selection

1. What is a passive form example?
2. What is passive voice in English language?
3. What are active and passive sentences mean?

What is a passive form example?

This company employs 2000 people. In passive sentences we put the focus on the object that receives an action. For example: 2000 people are employed by this company.

What is passive voice in English language?

One of the two “voices” of verbs (see also active voice). A verb is in the passive voice when the subject of the sentence is acted on by the verb. For example, in “The ball was thrown by the pitcher,” the ball (the subject) receives the action of the verb, and was thrown is in the passive voice.

What are active and passive sentences mean?

Active sentences are about what people (or things) do, while passive sentences are about what happens to people (or things). USING THE AUXILIARY VERB “BE” The passive voice is formed by using a form of the auxiliary verb “be” (be, am, is, are, was, were, being, been) followed by the past participle of the main verb.