PPT-exercise Change the following sentences into passive voice:

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1The police is doing something about that 2Lorries are using this road now 3Mrs Smith is organising a protest march 4Lorries make a lot of noise 5A lorry is making

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1The police is doing something about that 2Lorries are using this road now 3Mrs Smith is organising a protest march 4Lorries make a lot of noise 5A lorry is making that noise now. 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 . 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. 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.. 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. 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).. 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.. ~John R. Trimble. Mentor Sentences. Mentor Sentences. : . What . do you notice about the following . sentences?. Using . an image/sentence from your own writing, or something random, write your own sentence using the structure and concepts from the following. . 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 . 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. 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.. 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. 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. 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..

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