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Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,Active vs.Passive Voice,Developed by Jeniffer Viscarra,Active vs.Passive Voice,Why should writers think about their verbs?,“Verbs are the most important of all your tools.They push the sentence forward and give it momentum.Active verbs push hard;passive verbs tug fitfully.”,-,William Zinsser,On Writing Well,Why should writers think about,What is Active Voice?,In the Active voice,the subject performs the action.,For example:,Joseph draws a picture.,Joseph is the subject and he is doing something(drawing).,What is Active Voice?In the Ac,What is passive voice?,In passive voice the subject is acted upon.,For example:,The picture was drawn by Joseph.,In this case,the drawing is the subject and it is being acted upon by Joseph.,What is passive voice?In passi,When to use passive voice,Use passive voice when you do not wish to emphasize the subject of the sentence.,Example:,Smoking is prohibited.(passive),The management prohibits smoking.(active),The passive sentence takes attention away from management,so they do not have to be in the role of the“bad guys.”,When to use passive voiceUse p,Passive Voice(cond),Also use passive voice when you wish to emphasize what happened and the person or thing acting is unknown or unimportant.,Example,Poisonous gases were found in six factories.,The use of passive emphasizes the finding of,gases,not who found them.,Note:,Because passive voice often leads to awkward or wordy,constructions,use passive voice sparingly and with good reason.,Passive Voice(cond)Also use,When to use active voice,Use active voice unless you are required or have very specific reasons for doing otherwise.,Active voice generally leads to more concise writing.,It clarifies who is performing the action.,Remember:Staying active is a healthy practice,especially in your writing!,When to use active voiceUse ac,How to avoid passive voice,Many English verbs have been changed into useful nouns with the use of a suffix.,Announce announcement,Propose-proposal,Depart departure,Meet meeting,For active voice sentences use the verb instead of the noun form of these kinds of words.,How to avoid passive voiceMany,Rewrite the following sentences by changing nouns to verbs.,The two scientists could not arrive at a conclusion on anything.,They held discussions on several topics.,However,neither could put forth a proposal for a plan.,They only made a translation of previous studies.,Rewrite the following sentence,Possible Answers,The two scientists could not,conclude,anything.,They,discussed,several topics.,However,neither,proposed,a plan.,They only,translated,previous studies.,Possible AnswersThe two scient,Changing From Passive to Active Voice,The seeds were scattered by Jessica.,A healthy harvest is expected by Jessica,and,her father.,Another way of preserving active voice is by placing the noun/s doing the action before the verb.Try it!,Changing From Passive to Activ,Answers,Jessica scattered the seeds.,Jessica and her father expected a healthy harvest.,AnswersJessica scattered the s,Avoid forms of the verb,to be,All passives consist of a form of the verb,to be,(,am,is,are,was,were,being,been,)plus a past participle.,Example:,The boy,was impressed,by Ms.Jones.,A,past participle,is the,ed,form of regular verbs for irregular verbs:,en,n,t,)and can fill the empty slot in this sentence:“I had _ it.”,Avoid forms of the verb to beA,Revise by avoiding,to be,verbs,Houses were destroyed by the storm.,The cake was eaten by me.,Inexpensive ways for people to have fun are provided by parks.,Oxygen was discovered in 1774 by Joseph Priestley.,A kitten was chosen by the family to have as a pet.,Revise by avoiding to be verbs,Possible Answers,The storm destroyed houses,I ate the cake.,Parks provide inexpensive fun.,Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen in 1774.,The family chose a kitten as a pet.,Possible AnswersThe storm dest,Summary,Use active voice unless specified otherwise.,Make sure the subject is acting and not being acted upon.,Use the verb form of words with suffixes,Place subjects in front of the action they perform(this often eliminates,to be,verbs),Avoid,to be,forms of verbs,SummaryUse active voice unless,Works consulted,Ebest,Sally Barr and Charles T.Brusaw,.Writing from A to Z,.Mountain View:Mayfield Publishing,2000.,Keen,Michael and Katherine H.Adams.,Easy Access.,Boston:McGraw Hill,2002.,Troyka,Lynn Quitman.,Quick Access.,Upper Saddle River,NJ:Prentice Hall,2001.,Works consultedEbest,Sally Ba,
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