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Self study guide i i definition description passive voice

Name Moreno Albarrán Alexis Group IV Date September th Passive Voice I I De ?nition Description SELF STUDY GUIDE Passive sentences can be understood best by contrasting them with active sentences They can express the same idea but the subject receives the action instead of performing it The passive voice is formed with the verb to be conjugated then the past participle of the main verb The acting subject is expressed by However in most cases the subject is omitted because we are not interested in who exactly performs the action I II Usages Functions When to use the passive form of the verbs In some sentences passive voice can be perfectly acceptable You might use it in the following cases The actor is unknown The cave paintings of Lascaux were made in the Upper Old Stone Age We don't know who made them The actor is irrelevant An experimental solar power plant will be built in the Australian desert We are not interested in who is building it You want to be vague about who is responsible Mistakes were made Common in bureaucratic writing You are talking about a general truth Rules are made to be broken By whomever whenever You want to emphasize the person or thing acted on For example it may be your main topic Insulin was ?rst discovered in by researchers at the University of Toronto It is still the only treatment available for diabetes You are writing in a scienti ?c genre that traditionally relies on passive voice Passive voice is often Cpreferred in lab reports and scienti ?c research papers most notably in the Materials and Methods section The sodium hydroxide was dissolved in water This solution was then titrated with hydrochloric acid I III Passive forms Present simple Present progressive Past simple etc and special Features In this list are the active and passive sentences for all the major verb tenses CI IV EXAMPLES AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE AND INTERROGATIVE AFFIRMATIVE NEGATIVE INTERROGATIVE A lot of people are Books are not made in Is the co ?ee being murdered in Gaza by the schools prepared soldiers I V Exercises The bill includes service Service is included in the bill People don't use this road very often This road isn't used very often They canceled all ights because of fog All ights were canceled because of fog Somebody accused me of stealing the money I was accused of stealing the money They are building a new shopping center downtown A new shopping center is being built downtown I didn't realize that someone was recording our conversation I didn't realize that our conversation was being recorded They have changed the date of the meeting The date of the meeting has been changed Brian told me that somebody had attacked and robbed him in the street Brian told me that he had been attacked and robbed in the street CTopic II Non-de ?niting relative clauses II I De ?nition Description The non- de ?niting relative clauses give