A free simplistic way to remember what a passive voice is!What is active voice, what is passive voice, and what are its different functions?In the active voice, the subject is performing an action:The dog chases the ball. Notice how the subject, the dog, is performing the action, chase, on the target of the action, the ball. This is a simple, direct example of the active voice.In the passive voice, the action’s target, the ball, is positioned first as the focus of the sentence. The sentence gets