Active voice Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb
    active.
    • `The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice

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Definitions
  1. (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as the agent or doer of the action expressed by it.

Webster 1913