The passive is a way of structuring a sentence so that the grammatical subject is the person or thing which experiences the

effect of an action, rather than the person or thing which causes the effect:

An active verb or sentence is one in which the subject is the person or thing which performs the stated action: The dog chased the cat. The builders will build the house shortly. Jane Austen wrote this book. They have eaten the cake.

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