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The passive voice in English is a grammatical voice whose syntax is marked by a subject followed by a stative verb complemented by a past participle. For example:
In each instance of a passive voice construction, the subject denotes the recipient of the action rather than the performer. The agent may be omitted as evinced in the examples above, or it may be included adjunctively as follows:
Conversely, an active voice construction of the foregoing examples yields the following analogues:
A form of the verbs be or get typically comprises the stative aspect of the English passive voice construction, and the pertinent passive participle is sometimes called a passive verb.
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