(Exercise
35) Passive Voice
1.
Sombedy calls the president every day
The
president is called by somebody every day
2.
John is calling the other members
The
other members is being called by John
3.
Somebody will call Mr. Watson tonight
Mr.
Watson will be called by somebody tonight
4.
The fire has caused considerable damage
Considerable
damage has been caused by the fire
5.
The teeacher should buy the supplies for
thiss class
The
supplies for this class should be bought by the teacher
(Exercise
36) Causative Verbs
1.
Leave
2.
Repair
3.
To type
4.
Call
5.
Painted
6.
Write
7.
Lie
8.
Send
9.
Cut
10.
Sign
11.
Leave
12.
Washed
13.
Fix
14.
Published
15.
Find
Active
The active voice is the most
commonly used in many languages and represents the "normal" case, in
which the subject of the verb is the agent.
In the active voice the subject of
sentence performs the action or causes the happening denoted by the verb.
Example :
1.
Harry ate six shrimp
at dinner.
2.
Beautiful giraffes
roam the savannah.
3.
Sue changed the flat
tire.
4.
We are going to
watch a movie tonight.
Passive
The passive voice is employed in a
clause whose subject expresses the theme or patient of
the verb. That is, it undergoes an action or has its state changed.
In the passive voice the grammatical
subject of the verb is the recipient (not the doer) of the action denoted by
the verb.
The Spanish
language and the English
language use a periphrastic passive
voice; that is, it is not a single word form, but rather a construction making
use of other word forms. Specifically, it is made up of a form of the auxiliary
verb to be and a past participle of
the main verb. In other languages, such as Latin, the passive voice
is simply marked on the verb by inflection: librum
legit "He reads the book"; liber legitur "The
book is read".
Example:
1.
At dinner, six
shrimp were eaten by Harry.
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