The document explains the concepts of active and passive voice in grammar, illustrating how the subject and object interact in each form. In the active voice, the subject performs the action, while in the passive voice, the subject receives the action. It also provides examples and highlights changes in sentence structure when converting between the two voices.

1. Active and Passive Voices
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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Active and Passive Voices
• When you switch a verb from the active
voice to the passive voice, the sentence
changes in several ways.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Answer questions 1-4 on pg.
140
1.Active
2.Passive
3.Active
4.passive

10. Rewrite the sentences in 5-8
• 5. An elephant’s 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.