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In response to the questions posed in the first post of this thread, "the officer" is NOT the subject of the sentence regardless of whether the sentence is active or passive. "The officer" is undoubtedly the doer of the action in both sentences, but it is the subject only in...

She is drawing a distinction between what are called a surface subject (grammatical subject) and a deep subject. The deep subject of a sentence in the passive voice becomes the grammatical subject when the passive sentence is rephrased in the active voice. Generally speaking, both subjects are...