PPT-Active and Passive Voice

ACTIVEPASSIVE 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 . 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. . 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. 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.. 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.. 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. 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. 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. 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 - 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