In active voice, the agent…
A) is acted upon.
B) does the action.
C) is always a human being.
D) does not appear in the sentence.

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Clear sentences use active voice rather than passive voice. The structure of a sentence-the arrangement of words-affects the clarity of the sentence. In active voice, the agent that does the action occurs next to the verb, the agent and the action both appear in the sentence, and the agent appears as the subject of the sentence. For instance, in the sentence, "He wrote a book about his life," "He," is the subject and, "wrote," is the verb. The subject is the element of the sentence that does the action or the doing of the sentence, which is expressed by the verb.

In Active Voice, the Agent…