I want to speak passive voice

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Both Active Voice and Passive Voice have their own places in English language. The Active Voice is used : When the Agent (Doer) of the action is more important than the Object of the action, and he/it needs to be highlighted. Eg. I wrote my English exam yesterday. - Active Voice ( In this case,...
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Both Active Voice and Passive Voice have their own places in English language. The Active Voice is used : When the Agent (Doer) of the action is more important than the Object of the action, and he/it needs to be highlighted. Eg. I wrote my English exam yesterday. - Active Voice ( In this case, we normally don't use the Passive Voice form "The English exam was written by me yesterday") The Passive Voice is used : When the object of an action is more important than the subject of the action and hence their positions are interchanged. Eg. People appreciate Moral Truths very much.( This Active Voice form is rarely used.) Instead we say : Moral Truths are very much appreciated (by people.) - This is Passive Voice. A student of English needs to know the sentence structure of both the Active Voice and the Passive Voice, and the Transformation Rules to change the one form into the other. read less
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HI, it would be a good practice for you to include passive voice in your spoken english. In fact, people are advised to write also in passive form as it makes the narration easier and also crucial grammatical rules that otherwise apply in active voice can be easily dealt with in passive voice. Good L...
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yes it's a good idea to use passive voice in speaking it was written by me;i was asked to meet them etc.
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It's not a big thing.just try to talk about thing already happened. Automatically u will talk in passive voice and practice for it. Best of luck.
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Passive Voice is used under certain circumstances: 1. When you wish to highlight the recipient of an action: Tendulkar was awarded Bharat Ratna. 2. When you wish to downplay the doer of an action: Each student was given a book. 3. When you do not know who has performed the action: My purse was stolen 4....
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Passive Voice is used under certain circumstances: 1. When you wish to highlight the recipient of an action: Tendulkar was awarded Bharat Ratna. 2. When you wish to downplay the doer of an action: Each student was given a book. 3. When you do not know who has performed the action: My purse was stolen 4. When you want to hide the doer: The glass was broken (You do not wish to say who did it) 5. A general notice not intended for any particular person: Smoking is prohibited. On the contrary, in active voice the doer is highlighted. Nevertheless, passive voice should be used sparingly and only when needed and is unavoidable. The first choice is always active voice, read less
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Hauser, English language can be written in active and passive voice. Theoretically it can be speken also but for verbal communication passive voice is not used. However to learn more about active passive voices either go through a good grammar book or take assistance from a teacher.
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The places of subject and object in sentence are inter-changed in passive voice. If there is a verb in the present tense..it gets converted to past tense...past tense to past perfect and past perfect to 3rd form of verb (past participle) will be used only (as main verb) in passive voice.
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YOU CAN SPEAK ... And for that you have to practice a lot
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Haider First: What makes you want to speak in passive voice? The passive voice is possible only with verbs that have object/s. You form a sentence in passive voice by using a be verb with -ed/en verb (past participle) You use passive voice when you do not know who did the action
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When the receiver of the action is in focus or when the action itself is in focus. A good grammar book will be of great help; or a good teacher.
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