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- Meaning of “Voice”
- Present Simple Tense
- Past Tense
- Present Continuous Tense
- Present Perfect Tense
- Past Perfect Tense
- Future Tense
“Voice” is a grammatical category that applies to verbs. Voice in English expresses the relationship of the subject to the action.
Voice has two values:
- active: the subject does the action
- passive: the subject receives the action
Let us consider the first example below in the present simple tense.
| Subject | Verb | Object | |
| Active | Ghanaian farmers | grow | cocoa |
| Passive | Cocoa | is grown by | Ghanaian farmers |
See how the object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb:
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