Synonyms for active voice
ac·tive voice

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1. active voice, activenoun

   the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb

   "`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice"

   Synonyms:
   active agent, active

   Antonyms:
   passive, passive voice

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1. Bernard Iddings Bell:

   To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.

2. Sydney Harris:

   We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

3. Sydney J. Harris:

   We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying, It got lost, and say, I lost it.