Active and Passive Voices

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Active and Passive Voices

• Unit 3 Verbs
• Lesson 12

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Active Voice

• Active means you are doing something
• In Active Voice-the subject is the doer of the
  action.
• Example
• Ryan threw the ball.
• Subject

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Passive Voice

• Passive means that you are not doing anything
• Passive Voice-subject is receiving the action
  (something is done to subject)
• Example
• The ball was thrown by Ryan.
• subject

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Change from Active to passive

• 1.) Verb becomes the past participle
• Threw was thrown
• 2.) Subject goes to the object, object to subject
• Ryan threw the ball.
• Subject
  object
• The ball was thrown by Ryan.
• subject
  object
• 3.) Ask who or what to verb to find object
  (transitive)
• 4.) In passive voice, sometimes the doer is not
  shown