PPT-Grammar: Active vs. Passive

Week of Feb 17 WarmUp 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. 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 . 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.. Resources: . Warriner’s. High School Handbook. http. :. /. /. grammar.ccc.commnet.edu. http://www.englishgrammar101.com . Powerpoint. by Sandra Jameson. Nazareth Area High School. Active Voice. S. ACTIVE & PASSIVE VOICE. ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE: DEFINITIONS. ACTIVE VOICE. t. he subject of the sentence performs the action. PASSIVE VOICE. the subject of the sentence receives the action. ACTIVE VS. PASSIVE: EXAMPLES. 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.. 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 . Agentless Passives and Diagramming the Passive Ed McCorduck English 402--Grammar SUNY Cortland http://mccorduck.cortland.edu “ agentless ” passives – sentences in the passive voice that don’t have a Al-. Ma’moon. University College . Textbook : English Grammar in Use : Raymond Murphy . Instructor : . Assistant Professor . Nafila. . Sabri. We . use passive voice when the object. of the action is more important than. I. G. I. T. A. L. 4.0. Exercise 8: Rewrite each sentence beginning as shown. Do not change the meaning.. 1. You were wrong to study so late!. . You shouldn’t……. have studied so late. ……!. 2. Did you manage to stop him?. ATEG Overview. Julia Evans: “. Mechanics & Content in Students’ Writing: Putting the Pieces Together”. Sean . Ruday. : “All Actions Aren’t Active: The Purposeful Use of the Passive Voice”.