Passives

Passives refer to a grammatical voice where the focus is on the action or the recipient of the action rather than the doer. In passive sentences, the object of an active sentence becomes the subject. For example, "The cake was eaten by the children" emphasizes the cake and the action, rather than "The children ate the cake," which highlights the doers. Passives are often used to emphasize the result, to omit the doer when unknown or unimportant, or to vary sentence structure. They are common in formal writing, scientific reports, and situations where the subject's identity is less relevant.