1 / 10

Active vs Passive Voice

Active vs Passive Voice. Active voice In most English sentences with an action verb, the subject performs the action denoted by the verb . These examples show that the subject is  doing the verb's action. Passive voice

chynna
Download Presentation

Active vs Passive Voice

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Active vs Passive Voice

  2. Active voice In most English sentences with an action verb, the subject performs the action denoted by the verb. These examples show that the subject is  doing the verb's action.

  3. Passive voice The subject is no longer active, but is, instead, being acted upon by the verb. Note the first two examples how the subject-verb relationship has changed.

  4. Passive Voice Change active sentences (those with a direct object) to passive voice Look at the last example: NOTE:Colorful parrots live in the rainforests cannot be changed to passive voice because the sentence does not have a direct object.

  5. Review the 3 steps with an example:

  6. Recapitulation: To change a sentence from active to passive voice, do the following: 1.  Move the direct object (in active sentence) into the subjectslot(in passive sentence). 2. Place the active sentence's subject into a  phrase beginning with the preposition‘by’. 3.  Change the form of the main verb. Active: Marilyn mailed the letter. Passive: The letter was mailed by Marilyn.

  7. From Passive Voice to Active Voice

  8. Review the 3 steps with an example:

  9. Recapitulation: To change a passive voice sentence into an active voice sentence: 1.  Move the subject (in passive sentence) into the direct object slot (in active sentence). 2. Change the form of the main verb. 3. Place the object (in passive sentence) into the subject slot (in active sentence). Passive: The letter was mailed by Marilyn. Active: Marilyn mailed the letter.

  10. The passive voice may be a better choice in writing when: • the doer of the action is unknown, unwanted, or unneeded in the sentence • the writer wishes to emphasize the action of the sentence rather than the doer of the action • the writer wishes to use passive voice for sentence variety.

More Related