Using Passive and Active Voice: Architectural and Engineering Marvels 6.0 Introduction to Voice So far in this grammar‚ verbs have been classified by their form‚ tense‚ aspect‚ and modality. Another essential concept in the English verb system is voice. Grammatical voice refers to either passive or active voice. Consider the sentence The French government commissioned sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi to design the Statue of Liberty. The sentence is considered an active voice sentence because the
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PASSIVE VOICE 1. “There is a considerable range of expertise demonstrated by the spam senders.” The actors in this little drama are the spam spenders — or‚ to be more active‚ the spam senders are the actors in this little drama. Direct them center stage‚ and send the weak “there is” opening packing to the provinces: “The spam senders demonstrate a considerable range of expertise.” 2. “It was determined by the committee that the report was inconclusive.” Again‚ the subject is weak and indeterminate
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Composers use distinctive voices within their text’s to enable us to think about significant issues within the world. Marele Day in her novel " the life and crimes of Harry Lavender" uses the literary form of a detective fiction genre to challenge our perceptions of the roles of men and women in society and presents us with characters who use distinct voices in different situations revealing much about themselves and their relationships with others. Whereas Andrew Patterson challenges city life to
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As an actor‚ your body and your voice are your tools. An actor needs to control both their body and voice in just the right way in order to make their performance believable. Although it is sometimes thought that voice and movement are very different things and therefore should be kept separate‚ in truth they are very much connected and both need to come together for a great performance. A lot can be said about movement in acting. ‘One must stand up straight.’‚ “One must make all movements large
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sort of sound from our thoughts‚ excreting noise from the depths of our being‚ that’s our true signature. Since I have such a powerful tool available to myself‚ I don’t understand why I never fully use it to the advantage. I believe‚ that since my voices matter‚ I should make more of an effort to talk to my peers face to face. In my day and age‚ my generation is known for its dependence to our distraction. I seem to have lost the ability to talk to my peers. Everybody is more confident
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Active and Passive Voice Definition: A sentence construction showing simply a subject and what happens to it is called “the passive voice.” It consists of a form of the verb be (be‚ am‚ are‚ is‚ was‚ were‚ will be‚ has been‚ have been‚ etc.) and a participle (often a word ending in “ed”)—The employee was fired‚ the war will be ended‚ the papers are corrected‚ etc. Good writers prefer active voice because it is often more interesting (and informative) to read. Active voice examples: The company
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Ana Jesusa P. Camania Beed 3-1 Semi- Detailed Lesson Plan I. Objective: Distinguish the Active Voice and Passive Voice. II. Subject Matter: Active and Passive Voice A. Reference: English for All Times 6 pg. 164-170 B. Materials: Powerpoint Presentation III. Motivation: Show a picture of children flying kites. IV. Procedure: A. Presentation Make the student construct sentence about the picture.
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Exercise page 111-112 1. System Documentation—Payroll The following describes the payroll procedures for a hypothetical company. Every Thursday‚ the timekeeping clerk sends employee time cards to the payroll department for processing. Based on the hours worked reflected on the time cards‚ the employee pay rate and withholding information in the employee file‚ and the tax rate reference file‚ the payroll clerk calculates gross pay‚ with holdings‚ and net pay for each employee. The clerk then prepares
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Distinctive voices are expressed through individuals and make vibrant by understanding their situations. Individuals in this contextual understanding represents the minority and through distinctive voices it allows the responders to develop an understanding of their struggles. This is shown‚ in Ray Lawler’s 1950s play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll and Omar Musa’s spoken poetry Capital Letters‚ where they express the notion of change and ageing. With consideration to both composers context‚ Lawler’s
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Active and Passive voice Grammar: Active and Passive voice The formula of active voice is a common structure of a sentence; it should consist of subject‚ verb and object. If we want to change the structure into passive voice‚ we should change some of the elements in the sentence. The formula both of the voices are shown below: Active voice S + V + O + adjective/adverb Examples of the sentences 1. Agus gives Rany a present in her birthday. 2. They punched the thief
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