The document discusses the passive voice and how to identify it. The passive voice expresses an idea differently by having the subject receive the action rather than perform it. For example, while "I wash my dog" is active voice, "my dog is washed by me" is passive voice because the dog is receiving the action of being washed, rather than performing the washing. Identifying the subject and determining if it is performing or receiving the action helps distinguish between active and passive voice.

1. T he passive
For course 6 – 200
By Carlos Buitrago

2. How to work with passives
Working with passives is not difficult, you just
express an idea in a different way.
Example. I wash my dog
This simple sentence is in active voice,

3. Active voice:
When the subject does the action, so in the
sentence “I wash my dog” the word “I” is
the subject and it is doing the action.
While
In the sentence: “my dog is washed by me”
the subject of the sentence is the word
“my dog”, but is the dog doing the
action?
Have you ever seen a dog washing himself
in a full shower with soap and shampoo?

4. Off course not!!!

5. This is why this sentence “my dog is washed
by me” is in passive voice because I am
talking about the dog, but the dog is not
doing the action, is receiving the action by
me.