TO: 8"A", 8"B" and 8"C" STUDENTS
Hi dear students, these are the topics to see this period.
Please, copy all the information about the English class below.
3rd PERIOD
TOPICS:
- Passive Voice
- Comparatives and Superlatives
- Quantifiers
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE
There are two ways
to express an action of a subject in relation to its object:
1.
Active voice
2.
Passive voice
The active
voice is the "normal" voice. The subject (agent) of
sentence performs the action and the object (patient) receives the action of the verb:
Cats eat
fish
S V O
Agent Patient
The Passive Voice is used when the focus is on the action.
It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the
action.
In the passive voice, the subject receives the action of the
verb:
Form of Passive Voice
Subject + be + Past
Participle
Fish are
eaten by cats
S
Aux V(p.p) D.O (direct object)
The direct
object gets promoted to subject, and the subject demoted to an (optional) complement
The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb:
|
Voice
|
Subject
|
Verb
|
Object
|
|
Active
|
Everybody
|
drinks
|
water
|
|
Passive
|
Water
|
Is
drunk
|
By
everybody
|
EXERCISE:
Rewrite the sentences in passive voice
1) Mr Jones
watches films.
2) The people speak English.
3) He reads comics.
4) We play volleyball.
5) They sing the song.
6) I take photos.
7) She does the housework.
8) The policemen help the children.
9) He writes text messages.
10)He opens
the door.
11)We set the
table.
12)She pays a
lot of money.
13)I draw a
picture.
14)They wear
blue shoes.
15)They don't
help you.
16)He doesn't
open the book.
17)You do not
write the letter.
18)Does your
mum pick you up?
19)My parents know The Louvre Museum.
20)Does the
police officer catch the thief? -
*Don't forget to study the list of irregular verbs!
