Passive voice In active voice, it’s the subject who performs the action expressed by the verb, usually on an object or a person; this object or person affected by that action is called the direct object. How is it reflected in the order of words in a sentence? In order to answer this question, I’ll use an example: I read the message -> the subject (“I” in this case) comes first, the verb comes second and the direct object, which is the receiver of the action performed by “I”, comes third. The point here is that the direct object (“the message”) comes after the verb. But what if we want to give more emphasis to the receiver of the action? For that, we use the passive voice. Again, I’ll use an example to illustrate that fact: The message was read by me. Here, the subject is “the message”, which was the direct object in the active voice example I gave before, and the doer of the action (“I”) takes the form of a prepositional phrase, which may or may be not expressed explicitly. Hi, can you correct me, please? thank you very much!