Question

What is the third person passive voice?

Answer 1

Hint: The passive voice is a grammatical voice construction that can be used in many 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.

Complete answer:
The passive voice has a variety of functions. The passive voice is used to convey concern in the individual or object who is influenced by an action rather than the person or object who performs it. To put it another way, the most important thing or person becomes the sentence's subject.

Passive voice example -
The dog was chasing the squirrel. Let's look at the first two sentences in more detail: "Monkeys adore bananas" and "Monkeys adore bananas." Monkeys (subject) + adore (verb) + bananas make up the active sentence (object).

The subject is acted upon in a passive voice sentence; he or she receives the action conveyed by the verb. The agent who performs the action may or may not be included in the "by the..." word. The dog is acting on the subject of the sentence (the boy), so it is in the passive voice.

Third person passive voice -
When the narrator isn't a character in the novel, he or she refers to the characters by name or by "he," "she," "they," and so on.

When a character is speaking in the passive voice, the verbs that characterise his actions are all forms of the verb "to be": am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been. These adjectives could be applied to a rock just as easily as they could to a human. All of these are combined in the third-person passive voice.

Note:
There are two types of voices in verbs: active and passive.
i) Active voice –
It is an active voice when the verb communicates an action performed by the subject. Where a clearer relationship and clarification between the subject and the verb is needed, active voice is used. Example: Hens lay eggs, Birds build nests.

ii) Passive voice -
The passive voice is used when the verb's action is received by the subject. Where the action's doer is unknown and the sentence's emphasis is on the action rather than the subject, passive voice is used. Example: Eggs are laid by hens, Nests are built by birds.