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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - Notes from all classes
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- https://www.teach-this.com/downloads/3051-passive-voice-fact-finder/file
- Handout: matching - With your partner, match the halves of sentences to make true statements. You may use your phones to look for the correct information.
- 1 M
- 2 C (or A)
- 3 D
- 4 P
- 5 H
- 6 L
- 7 Q
- 8 E
- 9 F
- 10 S (by streets and parking for automobiles)
- 11 G
- 12 N
- 13 K
- 14 O
- 15 I/A
- 16 B
- 17 A
- 18 J
- 19 R
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- Grammar: passive voice
- form: [be] + past participle
- - This is the general form for passive sentences, but “be” can be in different forms for different tenses.
- Pasta was invented in China. It wasn’t invented in Italy.
- Ice cream has been eaten for more than 2000 years. - present perfect (started in the past, continues)
- A new subway station is being built near my house. - present continuous (in progress now)
- Note: we do not use passive (with “be”) in perfect progressive tenses
- (“been being” sounds bad and we don’t like it)
- We also use passive with modal verbs:
- The Tokyo subway may be used by nine million people every day, but I’m not sure.
- This food can be eaten without cooking.
- Paper might have been invented in China, but I’m not sure.
- They could have been killed, but luckly they survived.
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- p. 50 exercise 3 - Write the correct form of “be” and the past participle to make these sentences passive.
- throughout _____ = everywhere in _____
- per capita = per person
- 1 are spoken
- 2 have been mined
- 3 are considered
- 4 is eaten
- 5 is consumed
- 6 were worshipped
- 7 has been developed
- 8 were invented (more common: were both invented)
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- https://books.google.com/ngrams - Compare the frequency of different words and phrases in English books.
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