Active and Passive Voices

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Active and Passive Voices

• Pgs. 139-141

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Active Voice

• In sentences with transitive verbs, the subject
  performs the action, and the object receives the
  action.
• When the subject is the doer of the action, the
  verb is in the active voice.
• An active verb sends its action forward to the
  object.
• Zebras surrounded the bus.

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Passive Voice

• Sometimes the action of a sentence goes the other
  way. Then the subject becomes the receiver of the
  action rather than the doer.
• When the subject receives the action, the verb is
  in the passive voice.
• A passive verb sends its action back to the
  subject.
• The bus was surrounded by zebras.

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Active and Passive Voices

• When you switch a verb from the active voice to
  the passive voice, the sentence changes in
  several ways.

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Active and Passive Voices

• 1). The main verb is now a past participle, with
  a form of be-present, past, or future-used as a
  helping verb.
• Active Mrs. Juru led the safari.
• Passive The safari was led by Mrs. Juru.

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Active and Passive Voices

• 2. The object of the active verb becomes the
  subject in the sentence with the passive verb.
• Active Her son drove the bus.
• Passive The bus was driven by her son.

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Active and Passive Voices

• 3. The subject of the sentence with the active
  verb often follows the word by in the sentence
  with the passive voice.
• Active Mr. Watts spotted a giraffe.
• Passive A giraffe was spotted by Mr. Watts.

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Active and Passive Voices

• 4. A sentence with a verb in the passive voice
  does not always show the doer of the action.
• Many wild animals were photographed by our group.
• Many wild animals were photographed.
• No intransitive verb (action or linking) is ever
  in the passive voice.

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Answer questions 1-4 on pg. 140

• Active
• Passive
• Active
• passive

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Rewrite the sentences in 5-8

• 5. An elephants trunk is used for a variety of
  purposes, including eating and drinking.
• 6. Food and water are carried to the elephants
  mouth by its trunk.
• 7. In order to survive, an adult elephant needs
  half a ton of food per day.
• 8. Fifty gallons of water are drunk each and
  every day by a full grown adult elephant.