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9 Mohammad Mahfooz Hussain%u2022 Someone has deposited 1000 dollars into my account.%u2022 My father has deposited 1000 dollars into my account.More examples:%u2022 The cake was finished when I reached there.(We don%u2019t know who did it.)%u2022 Jeremy%u2019s twitter account has been hacked lately.%u2022 My new car has been stolen.%u2022 His dog was poisoned last night.%u2022 The movie was beautifully directed.These sentences are in passive voice as the doer of the action is not known to the writer.2. When the agent is understood or less important:Sometimes, the doer of an action is so obvious or unimportant that we often avoid mentioning it and write the sentence in the passive voice.%u2022 The kidnappers that had his child were arrested in Delhi.It is obvious that the police must have performed this action. And that%u2019s why the sentence misses the doer and is in passive voice. This is also important to note that what was done here (the kidnappers getting arrested) is more important than who did it (the police arresting them).More examples:%u2022 The old lady was transferred to a hospital.%u2022 The papers were correctly checked.%u2022 I was born in 1996.

