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Active or passive?

Exercise and reference answers

Items
  1. Item
    The subject performs the action
    Category
    Active voice
  2. Item
    Subject and agent are the same word
    Category
    Active voice
  3. Item
    She wrote the letter
    Category
    Active voice
  4. Item
    The subject receives the action
    Category
    Passive voice
  5. Item
    Object and subject are the same word
    Category
    Passive voice
  6. Item
    The letter was written
    Category
    Passive voice
Categories
  1. Item
    Active voice
  2. Item
    Passive voice

Explanation

Ask whether the subject is doing the action or receiving it. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), sections 209-211.
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