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Can a passive voice sentence be complete without the use of "by" e.g. my pencil is stolen? General Eg - The car was fixed by me. His hands are washed by him.

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Yes. And we almost always leave out 'by'.
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yes..when we do not know who/what did the action. eg. rahul's car was hit yesterday.
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This is itself PV, reason behind you are using verb third form with is.
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Yes , it can be. Only when the thing doing the action is not important. Eg- Someone or somebody
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Thanks for our inquisitive question. Sometimes in imperative sentences it is not necessary to use 'by'. Even then passive form is 'correct. For eg. Active voice: please call the doctor Passive voice: let the doctor be called for.
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We generally use passive voice to hide the doer.(doer is not important). What is done matters. So either you use 'by ' or not totally depends on ur choice.. Whether you want to hide the doer or not.. When we people break a Window glass... We never use 'by'..,,just say... The glass is broken.. Bt...
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We generally use passive voice to hide the doer.(doer is not important). What is done matters. So either you use 'by ' or not totally depends on ur choice.. Whether you want to hide the doer or not.. When we people break a Window glass... We never use 'by'..,,just say... The glass is broken.. Bt when we prepare an assignment / exhibition model.... We always use 'by'... This project is prepared by us (Rahul) read less
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In active voice we use someone, somebody, anybody, anyone, police, doctor etc....but in passive voice we don't use bye and that object...ex..The patient has been operated. The thief was caught..
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Yes it should be incomplete
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