PPT-Active and Passive Voice

Reference Humphrey S Love K amp Droga L 2011 Working Grammar An introduction for secondary English teachers Victoria Pearson Definitions Active voice Verbs are written with the . 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. . 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. . 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. ce Exercise Questions 1 TRANSFORM 1 ATION OF SENTENCES (ACTIVE/PASSIVE) Directions (1 - 82 ): In the following questions, a sentence has been given in Active/Passive Voice. Out of the four alternat 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..