2017-08-28 Grammar: passive intro

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework (optional): p. 158 exercise 8
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Passive Voice - opposite of active voice
- In passive sentences, the receiver of the action is the subject. (In active, the agent is the subject and the receiver is the object.)
subject/object - what does this thing do in the sentence?
agent/receiver - what does this thing do in the world?
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Handout p. 215 - Decide if each sentence is correct or incorrect, then fix the mistakes in the incorrect sentences.
1 I - A car accident occurred...
2 I - The tax bill was checked...
3 C
4 C
5 C
6 I - ...will be read...
7 I - ...should have been done...
8 I - finished
9 I - ...is married to...
10 C
11 I - I’m getting nervous.
12 I - We were really bored.
The speaker bored the audience. (active)
The audience was bored by the speaker. (passive)
The audience was bored. (adjective)
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Form of Passive Sentences
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Every passive includes a form of “be” and the past participle of the main verb.
We can use the passive in (almost) every tense, by changing the form of “be”.
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The subject of a passive sentence is the receiver of the verb, so verbs that have no receiver cannot be passive. (These verbs are intransitive.)
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p. 216 - Is each sentence here passive or not?
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p. 218 exercise 5 - With your partner, change each sentence to passive (in the same tense).
1 is opened
2 is being opened
3 has been opened
4 was opened
5 was being opened
6 had been opened
7 will be opened
8 is going to be opened
9 will have been opened
10 Was the door opened
11 Will the door be opened
12 Has the door been opened
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Future progressive and all perfect progressive forms are uncommon with [be] passives (because “be being” and “been being” sound strange). However, they are common with “get” passives.
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Exercise 6 - Answer these questions with your partner. Use the passive voice.
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Homework: p. 218 exercise 7 - put a check mark next to every correct sentence