Grammar Express: Voice

Interchange of Active and Passive voices is the process which enables you to change a sentence from one grammatical form to another without changing its meaning. It is an invaluable exercise, for it teaches you how to introduce variety of expression in writing English. Mark the effectiveness of the following examples.

Napoleon was criticized for giving toys to war hardened veterans.

He replied, “Men are ruled by toys.”

This explains the verbal power of variety of expressions by means of interchange of voices.