The difference beTween The acTive and passive voice

action Subject is doing the action

Subject is being acted upon or receiving the

In the active voice, the subject of the sentence is the doer of an action that affects the sentence’s object.

• Nadia prepared the food for the farewell party.

In this example, the subject or the doer (Nadia) performed the action (prepared) on an object (food). The passive voice, on the other hand, is when the object is acted upon by the subject of the sentence.