Passive voice
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The document discusses the difference between active and passive voice in sentences. In active voice, the subject performs the action, while in passive voice the action is performed on the subject. It provides examples of changing sentences from active to passive voice, such as "Hamlet was written by Shakespeare" instead of "Shakespeare wrote Hamlet." The document concludes by asking the reader to change additional sentences to passive voice and find information online about inventions to change and have a classmate guess if true or false.
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Passive voice
- 1. THE PASSIVE VOICE by Marcelo Andrade
- 2. Active voice: In this type of sentence, we talk about someone (S) who did (v) something (O) Shakespeare wrote “Hamlet” S V O
- 3. Passive voice: In this type of sentence, we talk about something (O) that was done (V) by someone (S) Shakespeare wrote “ Hamlet” was written by
- 4. Passive voice: In this type of sentence, we talk about something (O) that was done (V) by someone (S) Shakespeare wrote “ Hamlet” was written
- 5. “ Hamlet” was written by Shakespeare Verb TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE Graham Bell invented the telephone
- 6. “ Hamlet” was written by Shakespeare Verb TO BE + PAST PARTICIPLE Graham Bell invented the telephone The telephone WAS INVENTED by Graham Bell
- 7. Turn these sentences into passive voice: Christopher Columbus discovered America Many people saw the football match. Americans sent the first e-mail in 1971. John Logie Baird invented the first TV in 1925. George Lucas created “Star Wars”
- 8. Now, find 5 inventions or creations on the web. Change the information in two of them and let one of your Classmates guess if they are True or False.