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 ...

Use the past tense to report what happened in the ... is the grammatical subject of the sentence.) In contrast, the passive voice focuses on the object that is acted upon: "The temperature was ...

This is the person or thing doing the verb. The passive voice is made with subject + to be + past participle + by + object. Note that the active voice object becomes the passive voice subject.

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 ...