PPT-Passive voice

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. 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. . UWF Writing Lab. Grammar Mini-Lesson’s Series #2 . Defining “Voice”. “Voice” is a characteristic of verbs which indicates the relation of the verb’s action to its subject.. The voice of a verb may be either “active” or “passive.”. Voice. Voice. . is the form a verb takes to indicate whether the subject of the verb . performs . or . receives. the action. There are two types of voice: active voice and passive voice. Active Voice. 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. 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).. 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. Battle . royale. Why is active voice preferred?. “Active . voice is brief, cogent, and assertive. It shows the reader a moving picture whereas a passive voice is weak and up to interpretation. Prose should always be active, powerful. The reader shouldn't even realize they're reading words off a page. . 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.. Passive Voice. The ball was thrown by the football player.. Direct object . verb . actor/doer. Verb in form “to-be” + past participle. The . subject is the object of the action, not the doer of the action. .. 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. 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 . 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.