# Active and passive voice

Use the passive voice to shift focus from the agent to the action or recipient, understanding how passive constructions affect the presentation of information in formal and objective writing

Builds on: Past, Present and Progressive Tense (hard, https://ai.page/c/past-present-and-progressive-tense/en.md), Subject-verb agreement (hard, https://ai.page/c/subject-verb-agreement/en.md)

Concept id: active-and-passive-voice. Subject: english. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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