PPT-Describing a Festival Practice: Passive Voice

Practice Written and Spoken Register Harding Going International Workbook HardingTourism Students Book pp6465 Festa del Redentore httpswwwyoutubecomwatchvMJNJ99dAviU Festa del Redentore. ACTIVE/PASSIVE VOICE. -- Read each sentence. Determine if the verb is in active voice or in passive voice. . 1. Harry ate six shrimp at dinner. . 2. A movie is going to be watched by us tonight. . The active voice focuses on the doer of the action. .. Subject. Verb. Object. The driver. hit. a small child.. The passive voice focuses on the receiver of the action. OBJECT. VERB. SUBJECT. A small child. Kassie Howell . Ling 3362. 30. September 2014. The Rule: Use Active Voice Whenever Possible. History of Rule. Passive voice emerged in 4500 BC from the middle voice found in the Indo-European language, which English is derived.. From the. UWF Writing Lab’s 101 . Grammar Mini-Lessons Series. Mini-Lesson #2. . Voice . is a characteristic of verbs which indicates the relation of the action of the verb to its subject. The voice of a verb may be either active (with the subject doing the action) or passive (with the subject receiving the action).. The active voice. When . a sentence is in the active voice, the subject of . the sentence . is the actor. . The subject is doing the action in the sentence.. . Examples:. – The boy kicked the ball.. Thai passive. ผม. ถูก. หมา. กัด. . โดน. PASSIVE VOICE. Active VOICE. ask. is asked. to be + V3. PAST PARTICIPLE ( verb 3 ). PRESENT:. PAST:. PAST PARTICIPLE:. eat. Part of Speech. Noun. Pronoun. Verb. Helping Verb. Adjective. Preposition. Conjunction. Active Voice. John. . punched. . Kim. What is . John. ?. Subject. What is . punched. ?. Verb. Past. What is . Correct use of “I” and avoiding the “royal we”. Attributing Action. Active vs. passive . voice . (Activity 1: 2 minutes). Individually, . Write a sentence written in the active voice. Write a sentence written in the passive voice. The active voice. When . a sentence is in the active voice, the subject of . the sentence . is the actor. . The subject is doing the action in the sentence.. . Examples:. – The boy kicked the ball.. .. 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. .. Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than active voice, as the following example shows. Created by Alice Frye, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell. 1. Steps in this tutorial. 1) State the goals of this tutorial. 2) What are active and passive voice. 3) Examples of active and passive voice. Module 3. Describing Families. 1. RDA Chapters 8 . and 10. Module 3. Describing Families. 2. Families as creators. Families create records (archives). Families create serials (e.g. newsletters). Families create monographs (e.g. a family cookbook). Describing Others AND MYSELF We have worked in the last two weeks on describing others. This lesson focuses in on the changes in pronouns and verb conjugations that take place in order to shift from describing someone else to describing oneself. The first descriptions on each slide are in the 3. Trial. Active Sentence. Brown wrote “Teaching by Principles” book in . 1991. Premium. Passive . Sentence. “Teaching by Principle” book was written . in . 1991. Sentences can be in the form of active or passive.