Its english label the following sentences as either active or passive. the cow jumped over the moon. the towel was handed to me by my mother. my paycheck came in the mail today. the shirt was hung on the clothesline by me.

The cow jumped over the moon.   Active

The towel was handed to me by my mother. Passive

My paycheck came in the mail today. Active

The shirt was hung on the clothesline by me. Passive

Explanation:

The cow jumped over the moon.   Active

The towel was handed to me by my mother. Passive

My paycheck came in the mail today. Active

The shirt was hung on the clothesline by me. Passive

In a passive sentence, the doer of the action is kept at the place of object while the receiver of the action is kept at the place of subject.  

On the other hand,  in an active sentence the doer of the action is the subject of the sentence while the  receiver of the action is object of the sentence.

For example –  

Active Voice

Ram gave a pen to Shyam

Ram is the subject while Shivam is the object

Passive Voice

A pen was given to Shyam by Ram

answer: andy garner, a 17-year-old who decided to become a human guinea pig in 1965 and go without sleep for 11 days. by the second day his eyes had already stopped focusing, and he lost the ability to identify objects by touch. by day three he was moody and uncoordinated and by the end he had trouble with short term memory and had even started hallucinating.

and a rare genetic mutation called fatal familial insomnia, where people can’t sleep at all, gets progressively worse over months or years and leads to dementia and death.

a devoted soccer fan died after staying awake 48 hours to watch the world cup, she said. ‘while his untimely death was due to a stroke, studies show chronically sleeping fewer than six hours a night increases stroke risk by 4 1/2 times compared with those getting a consistent seven to eight hours.'

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