![man fixing a dishwasher in a kitchen](https://s3.amazonaws.com/smrtenglish.com/core/ENGL120AUTO/Unit%2002/2-3g1.jpg)
Our broken dishwasher is finally being fixed.
Passive Use
In grammar, the person or thing that does the action is called the agent of the verb:
![playing the guitar](https://s3.amazonaws.com/smrtenglish.com/core/ENGL120AUTO/Unit%2002/2-3g2.jpg)
The man is playing the guitar.
- verb = play
- agent = The man
![birds](https://s3.amazonaws.com/smrtenglish.com/core/ENGL120AUTO/Unit%2002/2-3g3.jpg)
Birds fly in the sky.
- verb = fly
- agent = Birds
![shoes](https://s3.amazonaws.com/smrtenglish.com/core/ENGL120AUTO/Unit%2002/2-3g4.jpg)
Those shoes cost a lot of money.
- verb = cost
- agent = Those shoes
In grammar, when we put the agent in the position of the subject of the sentence, this is called the Active Voice.
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