The document discusses active and passive voice, explaining that in active voice the subject performs the action while in passive voice the subject receives the action. It provides examples of sentences in both active and passive voice, noting that in passive voice the verb changes form and a form of "be" is used along with the past participle of the main verb. The person performing the action can be omitted in a passive voice construction.

2. What’s the SUBJECT?
(emphasis)
Does the SUBJECT DO THE ACTION? What’s the FORM OF THE VERB?
They ordered her to leave the job immediately.
She was ordered to leave the job immediately.

3. VERB
(in the correct tense form)
ACTIVE
PASSIVE
Latin American People speak Spanish in about 25 countries.
Spanish is spoken by Latin American people in about 25
countries.
BE + VERB
(in the correct tense form)
(past participle)
Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492.
America was discovered by C. Columbus in 1492.
THE PERSON THAT DOES THE ACTION IS OPTIONAL
Spanish is spoken in about 25 countries
America was discovered in 1492.

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