The passive voice is for when the object is given preference over the subject.
Active: I don't make my bed on weekends. Passive: My bed isn't made on weekends.
Active: The police are holding him for questioning. Passive: He is being held by the police for questioning.
You can change the active voice to the passive voice by changing an object to a subject. Your original sentence could be "The men took the chair to the museum." In the passive voice, the chair is the lead: "The chair was taken by the men to the museum." The same activity is taking place in both.
Sometimes, the change leaves out the original subject. For "Fred has eaten dinner" is the active voice, In the passive voice dinner becomes the subject, so the sentence may become "Dinner has been eaten." Here Fred, the original subject, has disappeared. We no longer know who ate the dinner, we merely know that it has been eaten by someone. The passive voice, therefore, may be less informative or contain different information.
Active: I don't make my bed on weekends. Passive: My bed isn't made on weekends.
Active: The police are holding him for questioning. Passive: He is being held by the police for questioning.
You can change the active voice to the passive voice by changing an object to a subject. Your original sentence could be "The men took the chair to the museum." In the passive voice, the chair is the lead: "The chair was taken by the men to the museum." The same activity is taking place in both.
Sometimes, the change leaves out the original subject. For "Fred has eaten dinner" is the active voice, In the passive voice dinner becomes the subject, so the sentence may become "Dinner has been eaten." Here Fred, the original subject, has disappeared. We no longer know who ate the dinner, we merely know that it has been eaten by someone. The passive voice, therefore, may be less informative or contain different information.
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