ENGLISH GRAMMAR The Passive Voice THE PASSIVE VOICE INTRODUCTION The passive of an active tense is formed by putting the verb to be into the same tense as the active verb and adding the past participle of the active verb. The subject of the active verb becomes the ‘agent’ of the passive verb. The agent is very often not mentioned. When it is mentioned it is preceded by by and placed at the end of the clause. Active: My grandfather planted this tree. Passive: This tree was planted by my
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The vocal color of Maria Jose Suarez is extremely appropriate for the role; the richness of her tone has an inherent motherly quality that blends well with the Antonio. However‚ it would seem that Antonio’s tone could use a little more resonant brilliance because he is occasionally lost beneath sounds‚ especially when the higher voices sing along with him. When the Marquis de Boisfleury arrives seeking Linda‚ the entire chorus is standing around his vehicle - no action is occurring at all for
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In the article “Giving Voice to Children’s Voices: Practices and Problems‚ Pitfalls and Potentials‚” James argues that “despite the representations of the “voices of children‚” children themselves may‚ nonetheless‚ continue to find their voices silenced‚ suppressed‚ or ignored in their everyday lives.” (James‚ p. 261) After conducting the photo voice assignment with my fifteen-year-old participant‚ Keerthana‚ I was able to come to a realization that due to the power imbalance between the researcher
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Suddenly‚ the review seemed even more urgent‚ because Vanishing Voices is a work that deserves the attention of the widest audience possible. The grim statistic is‚ as the authors Daniel Nettle and Suzanne Romaine explain early on‚ that almost half of the world’s known languages have disappeared in the last 500 years‚ and the process has greatly accelerated in the last 200 years. Nettle and Romaine provide a compelling look at the ways in which languages are rapidly disappearing from the face of
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Antonio Jones Jr. 2/9/11 Charity I’m Antonio Jones‚ just another student at the high school. I personally think that giving money to charity is a great idea. It’s a good way to spend and also share your money with people who don’t have much or none. Just for the simple fact
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PASSIVE VOICE 1. “There is a considerable range of expertise demonstrated by the spam senders.” The actors in this little drama are the spam spenders — or‚ to be more active‚ the spam senders are the actors in this little drama. Direct them center stage‚ and send the weak “there is” opening packing to the provinces: “The spam senders demonstrate a considerable range of expertise.” 2. “It was determined by the committee that the report was inconclusive.” Again‚ the subject is weak and indeterminate
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Lepham COMM 1301 Professor Houk November 20‚ 12 NBC’s The Voice Steering away from the belief that you have to look good in order to be noticed in today’s music industry is NBC’s Reality Talent Show‚ The Voice. The primetime series has proven to be a hit for the NBC network. Its current third season has expanded to two-hour live shows‚ 7 pm – 9 pm central time‚ airing three times a week. According to Nielson Media Research‚ The Voice has continued to sweep on average‚ 12 million viewers‚ allowing
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that of voice recognition. Voice recognition is commonly used to operate a device‚ perform commands‚ or write without having to use a keyboard‚ mouse or press any buttons. The user is able to talk to a computer with automatic speech recognition (ASR) programs and tell it what to do.(5) The computing innovation was created with the intention of being user-friendly and helping people with a variety of disabilities. My artifact illustrates this by going through the basic functions that all voice recognition
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Using Passive and Active Voice: Architectural and Engineering Marvels 6.0 Introduction to Voice So far in this grammar‚ verbs have been classified by their form‚ tense‚ aspect‚ and modality. Another essential concept in the English verb system is voice. Grammatical voice refers to either passive or active voice. Consider the sentence The French government commissioned sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi to design the Statue of Liberty. The sentence is considered an active voice sentence because the
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Voices of freedom | Safe for Democracy: The United States And World War 1 | America and the World 125:Professor Cash | | Evan Kantor | 2/15/2013 | | In reading of this chapter and both documents‚ it really shows how the United States had to fight for its democracy and freedoms. There were two main points during this time that helped shape America. Eugene V. Debs was a man on a mission; he was arrested for delivering an anti-war speech and was convicted in violation in
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