Average Price of a New Car? Having just bought two cars in the past month, I was fascinated to read a handful of interesting car-related tidbits this weekend. For starters, the average price of a new car or light truck in April was just a shade over $30k. $30,303 to be exact, which represents a $1200 increase over last year.
Use of Passive. Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action. It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action. Example: My bike was stolen. In the example above, the focus is on the fact that my bike was stolen.I do not know, however, who did it.hen rewriting active sentences in passive voice, note the following: 1  the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. 2  the finite form of the verb is changed (to be + past participle). 3  the subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped).
The passive voice is especially helpful (and even regarded as mandatory) in scientific or technical writing or lab reports, where the actor is not really important but the process or principle being described is of ultimate importance.