Voices

There are three voices in the English grammar as is mentioned below.

'Verbs' are words that are used to describe actions or states. 'Participants' are used as the subject, object, etc., in a sentence to help the sentence make sense. However, a subject and a verb are the main essentials for a sentence to be formed.

Whenever the subject is the doer of an action the sentence is considered as an active voice.
Look at some examples of the active voice:

Whenever the direct object of an active voice is promoted to the subject of the sentence and the subject turns to the optional adjunct, the passive voice appears in the sentence.
In this case, the subject is not the doer of the action, it is actually the receiver or undergoer of the action. Check out the examples:

'The middle voice' is another voice in English that has both characteristics of active voice and passive voice that is why it is called the middle voice.
Have a look at these examples:

Since the agent does the action of the verb, the structure is syntactically the same as active voice, while it functions semantically as passive voice. The easiest way to define the middle voice is to learn that the agent is acting upon itself. In fact, the subject is either performing and receiving the action. For example:

The middle voice has a special characteristic that make it easy to define it:

Check out the examples:

The voice of a verb shows the relationship between the verbs and its participant. There are three voices in English as follows. Check out the definitions.