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UNIT 2 EMPHASIZING OBJECTS “Language Information 3 ” L.E.L.I. Yazmin Vanessa Barrera

UNIT 2 EMPHASIZING OBJECTS “Language Information 3 ” L.E.L.I. Yazmin Vanessa Barrera Idea original E.T.E. Karim Juárez Cortes. Modificación y Diseño. USE: It is used when the person who carries out the action ( the agent) is unknown, unimportant or obvious from the context.

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UNIT 2 EMPHASIZING OBJECTS “Language Information 3 ” L.E.L.I. Yazmin Vanessa Barrera

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  1. UNIT 2 EMPHASIZING OBJECTS “Language Information 3 ” L.E.L.I. Yazmin Vanessa Barrera Idea original E.T.E. Karim Juárez Cortes. Modificación y Diseño

  2. USE: It is used when the person who carries out the action ( the agent) is unknown, unimportant or obvious from the context. • Unknown: My new laptop was stolen yesterday from my schoolbag. • Unimportant: The plants are watered every afternoon. • Obvious: The house was burgled. ( by a burglar). PASSIVE VOICE

  3. We use the passive voice when we want to show that the action of the verb is more important than the person or thing doing or causing the action. Examples: • The first mercury thermometer was invented in 1714. • Oliver Twist was written by Charles Dickens

  4. Passive voice is used in English to focus the attention on the action. Example: The telephone was invented in 1876. Note that we are not mentioning who invented the telephone but the action itself.

  5. FORM + Form “to be” + verb in past participle. Examples: • A letter was written. • A slice of cheese was eaten. • Some televisions were stolen last night. • Some books were bought yesterday. A form of verb be is used in passive statements. It’s singular or plural to agree with the subject, and it also tells the tense of the passive construction.

  6. Check this table to make clear the differences between active voice and passive voice Turning from active to passive

  7. To rewrite the active voice sentence check the next: The object of the active sentence becomes the subject in the passive sentence. The subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped).

  8. The agent of the a verb is the person, people or thing which performs the action. If it is necessary to mention it, use the preposition by. For example: • The paper was invented by the Chinese. • The first mercury thermometer was invented in 1714 by Gabriel Fahrenheit. • The compact disk was invented in 1965 by James Russell. Passive with by + agent

  9. FORMS

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  11. One of the greatest inventions through the history was the telephone, It was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell; it was designed to express the communication across wide areas; through the history a lot of changes have being occurred to this amazing invention like functions and size. Inventions

  12. The airplane was another very important invention. It was invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903. Itwas designed to allowed people and products to quickly move across the world. Theairplane

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