Wednesday, 24 January 2018

EF4/5 Active and passive voice

English borrowed words from many languages, so we sometime have strange spellings.


I doubt it.
spelling "bt" pronounced "t"

debt

qu French

Quebec, question, query, quotation

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Active voice/Passive voice

"She ate a sandwich." active voice- subject is doing the verb

she ate 

"The sandwich was eaten by her." passive voice- subject is not doing the verb

passive- does nothing

passive person- does nothing, doesn't make a decision, waits for somebody else to organize things

active person- motivated, busy, doing things

Some countries prefer passive students in class.


"I sharpened the pencil." active voice
"The pencil was sharpened by me." passive voice

Past Participle

bear                     bore                     born
go                        went                     gone
have                     had                      had
meet                    met                       met
fall                       fell                       fallen
do                         did                       done
know                    knew                   known
throw                    threw                  thrown
blow                     blew                    blown
fly                        flew                      flown
grow                    grew                     grown
come                   came                     come
begin                   began                    begun
write                    wrote                    written
bite                       bit                         bitten
"You were bitten by a dog." PASSIVE VOICE
chew                    chewed                 chewed
eat                        ate                         eaten
cut                         cut                        cut
put                         put                       put
read                       read                      read
be                          was/were              been

"She wrote a book." SIMPLE PAST
"She has written a book." PRESENT PERFECT
"The book was written by her." PASSIVE VOICE




                








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