Mistakes were made and unfortunately never rectified.Ĭf: The Prime Minister made mistakes and unfortunately never rectified them.we want to avoid responsibility for our own actions (typically found in government reports): Heated the solution to 80☌ and then allowed it to cool.Ĩ. The solution was heated to 80☌ and then allowed to cool.Ĭf: The technician added potassium and mixed it in. we are writing formal or scientific texts: The emergency services can be called by dialling 999.Ĭf: The public can call the emergency services by dialling 999.ħ.Passengers are reminded to fasten their seatbelts.Ĭf: The Captain reminds passengers to fasten their seatbelts.we are making general statements or announcements: we think the agent is not important or interesting:ĥ. we don't know who did the action (the agent):ģ.
The auxiliary be is conjugated in all tenses. In the interests of "plain English" that the average person can understand, many governments now encourage civil servants to write in the active voice.Įxcept on occasions when the passive voice is actually useful, the active voice is the voice of choice. Passive voice can sound dull and bureaucratic, and is typical of official writing. In written English, active voice is usually easier and more interesting for the reader. It is the natural choice, more precise and generally shorter. In spoken English, we almost always use active voice. All intransitive verbs can only be in the active voice, and all transitive verbs usually are active voice - unless we deliberately make them passive. The active voice is the "default" voice in English. In the active voice, the subject is the person or thing responsible for the action of the verb.Īll tenses are possible in the active voice, as well as all sentence types, positive, negative or question. Transitive verbs are usually in the active voice: subject Intransitive verbs (verbs with no direct object) are always in the active voice. The active voice is the "normal" voice of an English sentence.
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