Therefore, the Structural Formula for Active Voice Statement can be written as- Subject + Verb + Object Passive Voice- A letter is written by me.įirst analyze the ‘Active Voice’ statement: “I write a letter” - ‘I’ is the subject, the verb is ‘write’ and the object is ‘letter’. Structural Formulaįor the purpose of deriving a Structural formula for Active and Passive voice, we will study one example sentence in both the voices, written below.
It’s better to know the rules and Formulae for both Active and Passive Voices, by going through Examples and Exercises. The meaning of both of the above sentences remains same and they have only structural differences. Like in the above Passive Sentence the subject ‘me’ is being acted upon by the object. In the Passive Voice the subject becomes “Passive” and the Object gets the prominence. Passive Voice conveys the same message as in Active Voice, but it does it in an indirect way. Now go through the Passive Voice of the above Active Voice statement. Active Voice is expressed in the simple form of – Subject + Action (Verb) + Object. It a simply starts with the Subject (in this case ‘I’who performs the action) followed by the Verb (action)-‘draw’ and then the Object (on whom the action is performed)-sketch. Active Voice is the most direct and effective way to convey the information.
