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Activities 2.3, 2.16, 2.17
Lesson: Active and Passive Voice Learning Targets
• Form and use verbs in the active and passive voice.
• Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in verb voice.
• Use verbs in the active and passive voice to achieve particular effects (e.g., emphasizing
the actor or the action).
Active and Passive Voice
Voice tells you whether the subject of the verb performs or receives the action of the verb. If the subject performs the action, the verb is in active voice. In passive voice, the subject of the verb receives the action
or is the object of the action.
Active voice: The squirrel buries a pecan. [The subject, squirrel, performs the action of burying.]
Passive voice: The pecan is buried by the squirrel. [The subject, pecan, does not perform the action of burying. It is the object of the action, which means that it receives the action.]
A verb in the passive voice includes a form of the verb be, a past participle of a verb, and any needed helping verbs.
Tense
Examples of Passive Voice
Present
The pecan is buried. The pecans are buried.
Past
The pecan was buried. The pecans were buried.
Future
The pecan (or pecans) will be buried.
Present Perfect
The pecan has been buried. The pecans have been buried.
Past Perfect
The (pecan or pecans) had been buried.
Future Perfect
The pecan (or pecans) will have been buried.
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