Lesson 6: Active & Passive Voice Flashcards
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This is the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex.
Structure
This is a person or thing that is being discussed, described, or dealt with.
Subject
This is denoting or relating to a voice of verbs in which the subject undergoes the action of the verb.
Passive
This relates to or denotes the voice that attributes the action of a verb to the person or thing.
Active
This is a noun or noun phrase governed by an active transitive verb or by a preposition.
Object
In the active voice, what does the subject do?
Performs the action
What is the structure formula of active voice?
Subject + Verb + Object
What does a sentence in the active voice have?
A subject that does or performs the action, a transitive verb, and a direct object.
In active voice, what receives the action from the transitive verb?
Direct object
In passive voice, what happens to the position of the subject and object?
They are switched.
What is used to form the passive voice of a verb?
A form of the verb “to be” with the past participle of the main verb.
In passive voice, how is the doer of the action introduced?
Through a prepositional phrase that usually begins with “by.”
What is the structure formula of passive voice?
Object + form of “to be” + past participle + (by + Subject)
What does the sentence “The reporter wrote the article.” demonstrate?
Active voice
In the sentence “The reporter wrote the article,” identify the subject.
The reporter
In the sentence “The reporter wrote the article,” identify the verb.
Wrote
In the sentence “The reporter wrote the article,” identify the object.
The article
What does the sentence “The article was written by the reporter.” demonstrate?
Passive voice
Convert to passive: The journalist interviewed the witnesses.
A. The witnesses were interviewed by the journalist.
Convert to passive: The news anchor announced the breaking news.
C. The breaking news was announced by the news anchor.
Convert to passive: The editor reviewed the article.
B. The article was reviewed by the editor.
Convert to active: The report was submitted by the journalist.
A. The journalist submitted the report.
Convert to active: The footage was reviewed by the news team.
D. The news team reviewed the footage.
Convert to active: The investigation was conducted by the police.
A. The police conducted the investigation.
