Local television stations are owned by larger news organizations.
Passive or active voice?
Passive voice.
Passive voice.
The sentence "Local television stations are owned by larger news organizations" is in the passive voice.
To determine whether a sentence is in the passive or active voice, you need to identify the subject and the verb. In the active voice, the subject is the one performing the action, while in the passive voice, the subject receives the action.
In this sentence, the subject is "Local television stations," and the verb is "are owned." The subject is receiving the action (being owned), which is characteristic of the passive voice.