Any good high school student of English ought to know what passive and active voice is, hence I should really go into the topic of the day and explain when and why each of the two "voices" is used. Rather than assume that everyone knows, let me nonetheless begin by touching on what we mean by passive and active voice.

Active voice is when a sentence is written in a manner that the subject of the sentence is at the beginning of the sentence and it plays an active role in the action described ...
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