ACTIVE VOICE

In most English sentences with an action verb, the subject performs the action denoted by the verb.

    These examples show that the subject is  doing the verb's action.

   

Because the subject does or "acts upon" the verb in such sentences, the sentences are said to be in the active voice.

As the examples below illustrate, a sentence in  active voice  flows more smoothly and is easier to understand than the same sentence in  passive voice.