PDF-Active and Passive Exercises

MEMO Exercise 1 Change the sentences from Active Voice into Passive Voice 1 The doctor is called by Mother when somebody is ill 2 The doctor was called by Mother last night 3 The doctor is b. Active. When the subject of the sentence is doing something the verb is active.. E.g. The man wore a grey hat.. Subject – . man . verb – . wore. object – . hat. Passive. When the object of the sentence is having something done to it, the verb is passive.. Passive Voice. Angela Gulick. CAS Writing Specialist. June . 2015. What Exactly . Are. Active and Passive Voice, Anyway?. If you feel silly that you don’t know the answer to this question, I would estimate that about 70% of the people I teach don’t know the answer either. Active and passive voice describe the order of information in a sentence and what is being focused on, the subject of the action, the action itself, or the receiver of the action. . Reference:. Humphrey, S., Love, K., & . Droga. , L. (2011). . Working Grammar: An introduction for secondary English teachers. . Victoria: Pearson.. Definitions. : . Active voice. : . Verbs are written with the . person or thing receiving an action. .. -. Passive is made only with transitive verb.. Passive voice. Intransitive verb cannot be passive. Active sentences focus on performing an action.. Passive voice. voice. 11002015 . 김보경. 11002100 . 김현희. Chapter. 5. . contents. 01. The Perfect tenses. 02. The Continuous Tenses. 03. Modal Auxiliaries. 04. Focus on testing. 01.. The Perfect. 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).. 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 . 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. Affirmative Form. Object am / is / are being verb3 . Question Form. Am / is / are Object being verb3 ?. Something is being done by someone at the moment.. Active : The postman is delivering the mail.. 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. Immunity:. The state of being immune from or insusceptible to a particular disease or the like.. . The condition that permits either natural or acquired resistance to disease.. The ability of the cell to react immunologically in the presence of antigen.. Week of Feb. 17. Warm-Up: Monday, Feb. 17th. Add these definitions to your grammar notes. What . Is Active Voice?. The action is performed . by. . the sentence subject, meaning this sentence is . active (direct. source. : The Writing Center, . University of North Carolina at Chapel . Hill. Discuss:. What do you think PASSIVE VOICE is?. Why might we need to talk about it now?. A passive construction occurs when you make the object of an action into .