ACTIVE VOICE AND PASSIVE VOICE OF THE VERBS

1. Active and Passive
Voice
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2. Would you rather?
Watch Curry play basketball…
…or some random person sitting in
the stands?

3. Verbs and Voice
Voice is the form of a verb
that takes to indicate
whether the subject of the
verb performs or receives
the action.
There are two types of
voice: active voice and
passive voice.

4. Active Voice
Active voice is used to show that the subject of
the sentence is performing or causing the
action.
Examples:
Stephen Curry threw the basketball before the
buzzer.
Stephen Curry shot the basketball from the
free throw line.
Stephen Curry scored three points.

5. Passive Voice
Passive voice is used when the subject
is the recipient of the action.
Examples:
The ball was thrown by Stephen
Curry.
The basket was shot by Stephen
Curry.
The score was made by Stephen
Curry.

6. Form of Passive Voice Verbs
The passive voice requires a "double verb" and
will always consist of a form of the verb "to be"
and the past participle (usually the "en/ed/t"
form) of another verb.
Examples:
Active: John baked the bread.
Passive: The bread was baked by John.
(was is a form of the verb “be”)

7. Form of Passive Voice Verbs
Writers should be familiar with the forms
of "to be," often called linking verbs, so
that they can easily identify the passive
voice in their work.
Review the forms of "to be":
am, is, are, was, were, be,
being, been

8. Form of Passive Voice Verbs
Note the forms of "to be" in the examples of
the verb "to kick" in various forms of the
passive voice:
is kicked----------------had been kicked
was kicked-------------is going to be kicked
is being kicked---------will be kicked
has been kicked-------can be kicked
was being kicked------should be kicked

9. Form of Passive Voice Verbs
Examples:
 Passive: The cookies were eaten by
the children.
 Active: The children ate the cookies.
 Passive: The tunnels are dug by the
gophers.
 Active: The gophers dug the
tunnels.

10. Bring out your GUM TB
and let’s do PRACTICE
SECTION on page 121.
***In case you don’t have the
textbook with you, make sure to copy
the correct answers in your notebook.

11. PRACTICE, page 121
1. fires consume - A
2. animals are killed - P
3. destruction clears - A
4. trees have been incinerated - P
trees
5. trees have been saved - P
6. Sunlight pours - A

12. 7. grasses
wildflowers sprout - A
seedlings
8. number may - A
increase
9. fires are sparked - P
10. material is eliminated - P
11. fires cause - A
12. cycle has been upset - P
13. firefighters fought - A
14. materials were - P
eliminated
15. fire can - A
grow
16. flames incinerate - A
17. fires are ignored - P
18. They battle - A

13. APPLY, page 122
19. The raging flames kill many animals.
20. The fire has incinerated small trees and sickly trees.
21. Their thick bark has saved strong, healthy trees
from damage.
22. In a forest, lightning frequently sparks small fires.
23. These small fires eliminate dead material on the
forest floor.
24. Humans have upset this natural cycle of
destruction and rebirth.
25. Nothing has eliminated flammable dead materials
on the forest floor.
26. Today, firefighters generally ignore small natural fires.

14. REINFORCE, page 122
I kicked into the muscles of the
horse. Once again it reared and
snorted. Then it began to run. I didn’t
know what to do. Instead of running
across the field to the irrigation ditch
the horse ran down the road to the
vineyard of Dikran Halabian where it
began to leap over vines. The horse
leaped over seven vines before I fell.
Then it continued running.

15. 21st January 2018
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