1. The voice of the verb is distinct from its tense. Don't confuse the passive voice with the past tense. (Sentence 2 happens to be in the past tense, but 3 is not; both 2 and 3 are in the passive ...

In English, we can talk about the present and past in both the active voice and passive voice.The active voice focuses on the agent or person or thing doing the action. Alice sent Mary a birthday ...

When the subject of a sentence isn't doing something, the verb is passive. On the other hand, a sentence is active when the subject performs the verb (action). For example, in this sentence the ...

Hear Martin Galvin read this poem (in RealAudio). (For help, see a note about the audio.) Like totally kept my kiss list going? Weird. Martin Galvin is a poet who lives in Maryland. His poems have ...