ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE

Active to Passive

Passive to Active

Active voice is used most of the time.

Active

Subject (from passive’s preposition)

Active verb (minus auxillary)

Direct object (passive sentence’s subject)

The subject is doing the action denoted by the verb.

Passive

:Subject

Verb with auxillary (be)

Preposition

Subject is not active, but is, instead, being acted upon by the verb - or passive

• Direct object

One more example:

Source

http://www.towson.edu/ows/activepass.htm