PPT-THE PASSIVE VOICE

tr Dont trouble trouble till trouble troubles you i He speaks Chinese and Japanese with equal ease As I was getting along along along And singing a comical song song song . g closed door or the resultant state control condition eg open door RI57347WKH57347SDUWLFLSOH57526V57347URRW verb Adjectival passives describe states by assigning a property Example The door is still opened However unlike adjectives the property a 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 . 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. Voice is determined by the . subject’s. function in the sentence.. Active Voice. If the . subject is the doer. of the action, the verb is . active voice. .. Justin planted rose bushes in the garden.. 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).. 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 . 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. Using the Passive Voice. Definitions. Changing to the passive voice. Practice examples. Active Voice vs. Passive Voice. Active voice takes the form “A does B”. We. chose the . plastic film . to cover the microphone. Teacher Bárbara.. 1.- Write the verbs in brackets into the appropriate form. .  . Chinese __________________________ (speak) in Singapore. . The . Taj. . Mahal. _________________________ (build) around 164. PASSIVE VOICE PV 6 1. They introduced m e to her husband 2. Someone sold this old hat to my wife. 3. They are pushing the car. 4. Someone broke into my office. 5. They were talking about you. 6. You ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE VOICE. Generally, we use the active voice whenever possible because the Passive voice sentences often use more words, can be vague, and can lead to a tangle of prepositional phrases..