Question

What is the passive verb in the following sentence?: The ball was thrown by the quarterback who was running from the linebacker.

Answer 1

Hint: The passive voice is a voice construction that can be used in a variety of languages. The grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of the main verb in a clause with passive voice – that is, the person or thing who undergoes the action or has its state modified. Inactive expression, the subject, on the other hand, is the negotiator.

Complete answer:
A verb (part of speech) is a word (part of speech) that conveys an event (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (happen, become) (be, exist, stand). What the verb's object normally expresses is now conveyed by the subject, while what the subject normally expresses is either omitted or implied by any adjunct of the clause in passive clauses. Since it syntactically transforms a transitive sense into an intransitive sense, changing an active sense of a verb to a passive sense is a valence-decreasing process.

Examine what occurred and who was responsible for it to recognize passive speech. It is a passive voice if the person or thing responsible for the conduct is either omitted or appears in the sentence after the case, and if a past participle appears immediately after the form of "to be."

In the above sentence, the subject is ‘quarterback’ who is responsible for throwing the ball. The ‘quarterback’ appears in the sentence after the case. So, in the above sentence, was thrown is the passive verb

Note:
i) A sentence with an active voice has a subject who acts on the verb. A subject is a beneficiary of a verb's action in a passive voice.
ii) The passive voice is used to express concern in the individual or object who is affected by action rather than the person or object who performs it. In another way, the sentence's subject is the most important thing or individual.