Passive Voice
To be honest, I didn’t have the faintest idea what Passive Voice meant until I had had several books published. And then I was more confused than ever. It was sheer luck that most of the time I had it right.
I recently came across another blog post that came up with this very clever way of understanding passive voice. This is what was posted…
So here’s a quick tutorial on passive voice.
In passive voice, the object of an action is the subject of a sentence.
For example: The ball was thrown.
(The ball did not do the throwing, so it’s passive voice.)
Please go and have a look at the whole post – it is certainly well worth reading. Just click here and it will take you there.
Here’s to a productive writing week… :)
DJ
I’d never heard of passive voice when I first started writing my book. Then it began popping up its ugly head everywhere and wondered what the heck people were talking about. It probably took about two years before the penny finally dropped–okay, I’m a slow study :) I had the same problem with “the verb to be” in high school. I’d almost turn myself into a pretzel trying to understand it. LOL I’m still not sure that I do.
Hey, thanks for the link to my blog! And I’m really jazzed to find out that it helped you.