Review of tense and voice

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Review of tense and voice

• This presentation explains two different
  characteristics of verbs tense and voice.
  Knowing this vocabulary will help you discuss
  sentence characteristics accurately.

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Tense Time
Verb tense specifies time of the action
further past past now future past
perfect past tense present future The team
The team The team The team had played
played plays will play three games ...
yesterday. each week. tomorrow. ...when UT
beat them.
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Tense TimeVerb tense specifies time of the
action
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Voice relationship between the subject and the
action expressed by the verb
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Active Voice

• The students took the test on May 7.
• subject students
• students performed the action of taking
• active voice

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Passive Voice

• The test was given in the computer classroom.
• subject test
• the test did not act (give) but received the
  action of giving
• passive voice

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Marks of passive voice

• to be verb (is, are, was, were, have been)
• past participle
• usually an -ed wordcompleted, organized,
  complained
• irregular verbs have irregular past
  participlesgiven, taken, written, built

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Examples of passive voice

• Rome was not built in a day.
• Apples are fertilized with organic materials.
• Applicants race and gender are not considered.

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Past tense and passive voice

• Past tense and passive voice use past participles
  
• Use other markers to distinguish voice from tense

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Tense and voice together

• Transitive verbs have both tense and voice.
• In active voice, the past participle identifies
  past tense.
• I completed the project.
• In passive voice, the to be verb identifies
  tense.
• The project will be completed.
• The project was completed yesterday.

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Weak verbs and passive voice

• Weak verbs may sound passive, but voice always
  refers to the relation of subject and the action
  in the verb, not to strength and weakness.
• These examples use weak verbs but not passive
  voice.
• This lesson is important. (to be verb)
• This course involves grammar. (active voice)

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Summary Tense and Voice

• Tense Time
• Verb tense places an action in the past, present,
  or future
• Voice relationship of the subject to the action
  in the verb
• active voice subject performs the action
• passive voice subject receives the action