1.   Another method of making a passive sentence active is to change the subject of the verb.

2.   As both the active and the passive sentence mean the same thing, it is reasonable to ask why we need both.

3.   No distinction is made, for example, between active versus passive sentences.

4.   Subjects were told whether to produce an active or a passive sentence to describe the picture, and production latency was measured.

5.   The second advantage of passive sentences is that they have a different word order from active sentences.

6.   The normal word order is reversed in passive sentences.

7.   Or we can describe the same action using a PASSIVE sentence, in which the subject of the sentence is acted upon.

8.   In a literary essay, however, you should be cautious about leaving out the actor in a passive sentence.

9.   All these were short sentences studded with the action of verbs and not passive sentence fragments.