GG#11.46: “Active voice versus Passive Voice”
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Write two examples - use sentences from your own writing (either from our class or from another class) that demonstrate the rule or break it (and then you'll fix the sentence).
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Active Voice versus the Passive Vocie is the topic that Grammar Girl is discussing this week. She tells us that in an active sentence the subject is doing the action. In a passive sentence the subject is receiving the action. Grammar Girl says that the passive voice isn't grammatically incorrect. The Passive voice just doesn't relinquish your thoughts effectively. She tells us that it is vague and nebulous. But sometimes it may be the right choice. I will show you some examples so you understand.
Example: "I write a current event every week for economics class."
The subject is ME and I am doing the action.
Example: "The rebels were shot."
The subject is the rebels and they are receiving the action.
Francisco Balderas
Voice* sorry
I can't handle all the voices in my head but actually right about now, only two kinds of voices are bobbling in my head, active voice and passive voice. In an active voice sentence the subject does the action, while in a passive voice sentence the action gets promoted to the subject position. Many people prefer to use the active voice and that is why those people get irritated when others use the passive voice. It's not incorrect to use the passive voice, but it is recommended that you use the active voice instead. Politicians are a group of people who tend to use the passive voice and sometimes they can confuse their audience because in many occasions the agent that does the action is left out in the passive voice. Like Grammar Girl explained, it isn't incorrect to use the passive voice because it has been proven that the passive voice can be the best option and it usually happens when the agent isn't known or doesn't matter. Although there can are some exceptions of being able to use the passive voice as the best option, it is still recommended that you use the active voice more often. Just remember this and you'll be fine.
Ex.1 "David Souter loves his job as a Supreme Court justice." In this sentence the active voice is being used. The subject is David souter and he is performing the action.
The passive voice of this sentence would be, "The Supreme Court justice job is loved by David Souter." Doesn't sound to appealing right?
Ex.2 "Sandra Day O'Connor walked the halls of the Supreme Court everyday." In this sentence the active voice is being used. Sandra Day O'Connor is the subject and she is performing the action.
The passive voice of this sentence would be, "The halls of the Supreme Court were walked everyday by Sandra Day O'Connor."
My response goes to Francisco. You mentioned and pointed out the key points of this weeek's grammar girl, while your examples show your comprehension of the concept. That's great and keep up the good work!
Fernando S. Per. 2
Amazing summary indeed fernando. I like your introductions they are creative. You definitely understand the differences between Active voice and Passive voice. Your examples are splendid and I don't believe i have anything to correct. Thanks for the comment.
On today’s grammar girl the topic was about "Active voice versus Passive Voice" In an active sentence, the subject is doing the action. An in the passive voice the target is the action that gets promoted to the subject position. Sentences that contain a verb to be are in passive voice but it’s not true. An important point to remember is that passive sentences are not incorrect it’s just that they often are not the best way to phrase your thoughts. When you put sentences in passive voice, it's really easy to leave out the agent doing the action of the phrase.
Ex. John told Maria he likes her.
John is the subject and he is doing the action he likes her.
Ex. Maria is liked by John.
The subject of the sentence becomes Maria, but she isn't doing anything.
-Alex Luviano
In this weeks Grammar Girl she teaches about how to use Passive Voice Vs. Active Voice.
She explains how passive can be often misused incorrectly and how to avoid it. By using the subject first to do the action. When using a passive voice, the target becomes the subject and rather than giving the subject receives action.
Active Example: James picks the root beer float.
Subject:James, James does the action.
Passive Example: The Root Beer Float was picked by James.
This weeks grammar girl is talking about Passive Voice. It talks mostly about subjects in a sentence. It tells you that in a passive sentences the subject is reciving the action and in a active sentence the subject is giving the action. Nether of the two ways are wrong,but one in the passive vocie dose not express your thought thoughly.
Ex. I have to do my essay for english. (active)
Ex. The president has the power to veto laws. (passive)
I think that dechristainize example are really good and I shows that he understood this weeks grammar girl.
Fernando C. period 2
This week topic on Grammar Girl she mentions about Active voice vs. Passive voice. There are simply very different from one another. Lets start by explaining an active voice, in an active sentence the subject is doing the action.
ex. Bryan loves Isabella.
-- Bryan is the subject in which he is doing the action.
ex. I read the article for my psychology class.
--- the subject is "I" and I am doing the subject.
A Passive voice is where the action gets promoted to the subject position.For example:
Instead of writing " Bryan loves Isabella." using a passive voice it would be
Isabella is loved by Bryan.
--- Where Isabella is the subject of the sentence but is not doing any of the action.
Dechristainize,
You see to understand the concept very well. In other words you get straight to the point. By you examples it seems like you do understand the concept.
Active vs Passive Voice
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In an active sentence, the subject is the one doin the action.
EX: I admire the luxurious houses of the hills.
Likewise, a passive sentence includes the witching of subjects.
EX. the luxurious houses of the hills are admired by me.
Instead of "I admire" as the subject and verb (active voice) the focus of the verb switches to the houses of the hills. the houses on the hills are recieving my admiration instead of me giving it. A passive voice is not gramatically incorrect, it just doesn't sound as good as an active voice.
If the writer doesn't know the subject, then using a passive voice is a better choice
EX: The subject was not taught well.
No subject? who was is not taught well by?
Well, if you dont know who that was, use the passive voice have the poorly taught subject as your main focus (instead of the unknown teacher).
maddie Isaacs
p2
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Fransisco Balderas
i dont think your second example shows your understanding of the lesson. I believe i takes a little more that just changing the sentence tense to turn an active voice into a passive one. Or am i wrong?
Grammar Girl discusses active voice and passive voice. In active voice the subject is doing the action or the person acting is clear. In passive voice the target of the action gets promote to the subject position the subject receives the verb's action. Passive voice is annoying, while active voice is acceptable. This concludes my broadcast day.
Examples
Active Voice
1. Roger killed the cat.
Passive voice
2. The cat was killed by Roger.
Respond to maddie Isaacs:
Misspelled doing in first sentence. In third sentence you wrote "Likewise, a passive sentence includes the witching of subjects." Witching? I’m going to stop here and say reread your response before posting. You’re welcome
-RR
In episode 46, Active Voice Versus Passive Voice, Grammar Girl talks about the differences of active voice and passive voice. In an active voice sentence the subject does the action, while in a passive voice sentence the action gets promoted to the subject position. Passive sentences aren't wrong just normally aren't the best way to expression your thoughts since they can be awkward and unclear.
Ex.
Martin Luther King, Jr. led more than 250,000 people in a march on Washington.
-This is an example of an active sentence. King is the subject and he is doing the action.
In World War II, Germany was controlled by Adolf Hitler.
-This is an example of a passive sentence. Germany is the subject although it isn’t doing anything.
Karina, I like the way you broke down things but I think you should make your examples a little more complex so you can demonstrate that you know the concept clearly.
-Lucy Salguero
On this weeks Grammar Girl she talks to us about Active Voice Versus Passive Voice. She explains the motive of Active Voice meaning that the subject is doing much more of the action. Passive Voice mainly the subject is the one receiving the action. Mainly a passive sentences are correct but are mainly mistaken because some rephrase what they are saying. Both have are meaningful but passive voice is just the thought.
Ex: I have to train for the marathon.
ex: The gangsters were killed.
Roberto Cabezas
per.2
Response to Fernando C:
You could of explained much more the concept of Passive and Active voice. Not much was explained. But overall good examples. One last note don't forget to spell check your words! 8D
This episode of Grammar Girl was about Passive Voice versus Active voice. When using active voice, the subject is acting. When using passive voice the subject is changed from the producer to the receiver of the action. The use of both is not incorrect however can be hard to follow. Only under certain circumstances is passive voice a good choice.
Example 1. I am eating a cookie.
This is one of those complex ways of using "to be" in an active voice.
Example 2. The cookies were eaten by Timmy.
This is a form of passive however because we know the subject is Timmy, it should be Timmy ate the cookies (it changed to active).
Roberto, I think that you should also look at your summary and maybe include a bit more detail. I love your second example it made me laugh, but I'm not sure if that's the correct way to use passive. I could be wrong though, most likely I am. Maybe explain more about the Passive voice versus the Active voice, I feel like you didn't really understand.
This week in Grammar Girl the topic was Voice versus Passive voice. Passive voice is when the target of the action gets promoted to the subject. As in active voice the subject is the one causing the action. Passive voice could get a bit complicated because sometimes you could leave out the subject that is doing the action. Sometimes if the sentence sound strange or has a awkard meaning then its probably not used in the proper way.
Ex: Kerina is hated by Maria.
The subject is kerina but Maria is doing the hating:p
EX:The milk is drank by me.
The milk is the subject but is being drank by me.
Response:
Roberto everything was good i liked your examples they are funny but maybe next time you should explain who is the subject and where is the passive voice being used.:)
This weeks grammar girl is about active and passive voices. She mentions that people are always messing up the two. So she tells us that active voices are when a subject is doing an action. Passive voice is when the action gets promoted to the subject. She provides example such as Marvin Gaye's song "I heard it through the Grapevine".
EX.1(Active)
I play guitar everyday because its something i enjoy doing.
EX.2(Passive)
Guitar is what he does.
@Francisco:
i like how you connected your first example to economics class. It makes perfect sense to me. But your second example seems boring, but then again so do most of the passive voices I've ever read.
-Cris Garcia P.2
*On a side note, when i first read active and passive, i instantly though about pickup's on guitar's lol.
This week grammar girl talks about active and passive voice. Active voice is when the subject is doing the action.And in the Passive voice is when the target of the action gets promoted to the subject position or receiving the action. She lets us know that all the to be verbs are not passive voice.Passive sentences aren't incorrect they are just not the best way to phrase your thoughts. Passive voice is akward and is often vague.
Examples:
active voice
Sonny looked at sugar as an ugly little girl.
passive voice
Sugar was looked by sonny as an ugly little girl.
active voice
The rebels took Ishmael to the camp to train him to become a soldier.
passive voice
Ishmael was taken by the rebels to become a boy soldier.
maddie your examples for active voice were used correctly and I liked the fact that you explained your reason for why the sentence was active voice.
This weeks grammar girl was about Active voice versus Passive voice. In an active sentence, the subject is doing the action. In passive voice the target of the action gets promoted to the subject position. Many people seem to get confused when using active and passive voices because they seem to mix up the words.
Examples:
-[Active] I closed the door and sat down.
- [Passive] The door was closed by me as i sat down.
Response to zacadisco93"
I Love the way you started off your summary!!!! It caught my attention great! you seem to understand the conceot of this weeks grammar girl!!! Cool:)
In Grammar Girl today, she talks about Active and Passive voice. She tells us that an active voice should be used rather than a passive voice. A active voice is when the subject is doing the action and a passive voice recieves the action. She also explains that a passive voice isn't alway wrong to use, that sometimes when you do not have a subject a passive voice will help you out.
Examples:
Active Voice- Obama ran for president and he won.
Passive- My shoe has been stolen from the closet.
Alex, your examples are to much like Grammar girl. I couldn't really get an understanding that you knew how to use them in your actual work. Next change it up a litte.
This week Grammar Girl is about Active voice versus Passive Voice. In an active voice sentence the subject does the action. In a passive voice sentence the action gets promoted to the subject position. Passive voice are good but not the best because they not not fully show your thoughts.
ex: I run two miles before school every day.
ex: The girl was slapped to day.
Lucy your shows that you get it. I help me when I was trying to come up with example from my old work.
11. This week, Grammar Girl discusses the difference between active and passive voice. An active sentence has the subject doing the ACTION. On the other hand, the passive voice uses the target of the action to be promoted as the subject’s position. When writing, the writer should avoid using passive sentences because it may make sentences vague and awkward. It may also leave out information about the subject. In some cases, using passive voice is okay when you don’t know who is doing the action. If you have information about the subject than use active voice to avoid wordy sentences.
Example 1: Active voice: “In the novel, women play an important role.” Passive voice: The important role is played by women.
Example 2: Active voice: “In my lit device I had few grammar errors which helped my overall paper.” Passive voice: Few grammar errors helped the overall paper written by me.
Response to Roberto,
I'm not exactly sure if you were able to understand the concept between active and passive voice. I also think that you repeatedly used the word "mainly" which wasn't necessary. On your examples, you didn't demonstrate the differences between active and passive voices.
- Mary G. per2
Grammar girl talked about Active voice and Passive voice. An active sentence has the subject doing an action. A passive sentence has the subject receiving an action. She believes that passive voice sentences aren't correct because it doesn't tell show our thoughts.
EX 1 Active Voice
I try to skate every Friday
The subject is me and I try to skate every Friday
Ex 2 Passive Voice
The girls like to get their nails done.
Francisco
Well explained summary. If only you had a well detailed example.
In todays episode of grammar girl, she talks about active voice versus passive voice. She explains that in an active sentence the subject is doing the action.
Ex. "Jack fell skateboarding."
Ex. "Jane threw the rock."
In passive voice the target of the action gets promoted to the subject, basically you are revering the sentence by making the target start the sentence.
Ex. "skateboarding makes Jack fall"
Ex. "The rock was thrown by Jane"
Joseph C
per 5
Hello slonek24,
You have a good summary and examples, but you have some mistakes.
Ex. "skateboarding makes Jack fall"
"Skateboarding makes Jack fall."
Ex. "The rock was thrown by Jane"
"The rock was thrown by Jane."
Good!
---Sandra Viramontes
Period 5
Hey everyone.
Well this topic seems to be pretty easy. The way that you can tell an "active" sentence from a "passive" sentence is that in the former the subject does the verb. This means that you could put the sentence in a kind of formula: SUBJECT blanks OBJECT. The passive voice similarly follows a kind of formula: the OBJECT is blanked by the SUBJECT.
Example-"Ishmael is forced to relinquish his innocence."
The object is Ishmael and the subject is implied, almost unimportant, therefore, it is a passive sentence.
Example-"The audience applauded."
Here the subject does the verb so it is an active sentence.
Rama Escolin
Great Gilly.
I like how you distinguished active voice from passive voice in your summary. It proves that you clearly have a grasp of the concept.
The only thing I wish you had done was to add the reason why your sentences were either active or passive to just help anyone else trying to understand your comment.
Good Job though.
Rama P.2
This week's Grammar Girl is about the difference between active voice and passive voice. Active voice is used in a sentence to focus on the subject of that sentence. The sentence would have a subject directly performing an action, while in passive voice an object in a sentence would become the subject.
Another tip to remember is that you should use active voice when the subject and the action are known. When reffering to a general action by an unknown subject, you should use passive voice.
Here are some example:
--Passive Voice
1. The paper was thrown in the trash yesterday.
2. The cake was eaten by the partydoers.
--Active Voice
2. I had to throw the paper in the trash yesterday.
2. We ate the cake at the party.
Comment to whisperinthewind0104,
I read your examples. They are well- thought out; however, I think that you could have put more into your second example. It does sound a lot like GG's example in the podcast. I would like to see your own examples, I am sure that you can show your understanding of the text.
SARAHALG :]
This weeks Grammer Girl talks about Active Voice versus Passive Voice. An active sentence is the subject doing the action. In a passive sentence the subject is receiving the action.
Example 1:
Selena Gomez loves Texas.
The subject is Selena Gomez and she doing the action. In this sentence the active voice is being used.
Example 2:
Texas is loved by Selena Gomez.
The subject is Texas. In this sentence the passive voice is being used.
Example 3:
I like her chocolate cakes.
The subject is I and I am doing the action.
Example 4:
Her chocolate cakes are like by me.
The subject is her, but she isn't doing anything.
--Sandra Viramontes
--Period 5 :))
Grammar Girl talks says that active voice is when the subject is doing an action. When passive voice is used than the subject is there, but not enough information is used. To be more clear the subject is receiving the action. When active is used than the subject is doing the action to another subject.
Examples-
1. Pedro is kicking the ball to Alejandro.
Pedro is the subject which is kicking the ball( verb), the sentence is an active voice senetnce.
2. Alejandro is being kicked.
The sentence is a passive sentence because the action is being passed and not done.
Jesse Machorro.
2.
In episode of 46 Grammar Girl she taught us active voices versus the passive voice. In an active phrase the subject is doing the action and in the passive voice the subject is getting the action. Its incorrect to use the passive voice, therefore its recommended that you use the active voice instead.
Ex. soccer fans cheered on their favorite team.
Ex. the coach screamed at the player for not showing up on time to practice.
Lucy- i like the way you explained this theory and it would be better if you gave explanation about your examples that way the readers understand more. i mean i didnt get this concept that well but im sure ill get soon. good job.
In this episode grammar girl talk about active voice versus passive voice. When active voice is being used it means the subject is the one that's doing the action. When passive voice is being used it receiving the action and not doing it.
Ex: Tiffany told Lauren she dislikes her. (Active)
Tiffany is the subject and the action shes making is disliking Lauren.
Ex: Lauren knows she's disliked by Tiffany. (Passive)
The subject is now Lauren and she's not doing anything about Tiffany disliking her.
Reply: slonek24
I think your examples would be more helpful to everyone if you explain them instead of just writing them.
Nelly
Melamed
Per. 5
This week Grammar Girl goes on to tells us that using active voice means that the subject it doing the action of the sentence. However; in a passive sentence, the target of the sentence is used as the subject. In other words, the recipient or subject becomes the focus of the sentence. She concludes that an active voice is the correct choice, most of the time.
Examples:
1.) I prepare for physiology quizzes every other week.
2.) She was known by her astounding pastries.
Francisco B.
The analysis you provided was great. You clarified questions that I needed answers to.
carlostaquitos = Carlos H. P.2
This week Grammar Girl talks about active voice versus passive voice. She simply explains that in an active sentence the subject is doing the action. While in passive voice the target of the action gets promoted to the subject position. An important point is that passive sentences aren't incorrect so you can still use them but they often aren't the best way to phrase your thoughts. It can make your sentences confusing or awkward. Passive voice is often good when the actor isn't known or if you want to create some mystery around your sentence.
ACTIVE VOICE
Ex: The man must have eaten five hamburgers.
The man (subect) is doing the eating (verb).
PASSIVE VOICE
Ex: Five hamburgers must have been eaten by the man.
Hamburgers (subject) are being eaten (verb).
Alejandra Naranjo
per.5
Response: GreatGilly i liked that your summary was short and understandle the only thing i would change is to show how ur examples are passice and active other than good job!
On this weeks gramar girl, she talks about pasive and active voice.In passive voice the sentence gets the action thats promoted to the subject position.Active voice sentence is the subject that does the action.
examples..
Skating makes ferno's happy.
The guys where robbed.
Fernando Betancourt per 6
This week's topic for Grammar Girl is Active Voice Vs. Passive Voice. In this episode, Grammar Girl explains the difference in both active and passive voice and when it is correct/incorrect to use each one. Active voice is a usually a simple sentence in which the subject is doing the action and should be used more often than passive voice especially if you know who or what the subject is. Passive voice is used when you don't know or want to leave out the person or thing doing the action. It is wise not to use Passive voice as much to avoid awkward, obscure sentences.
EX. "I was showing him I cared..."
I am doing the action.
EX. "The bricks are garnered in the morning."
The bricks are receiving the action but we don't know who is doing it...bricks don't move themselves.
Giovanna Murray
Per 2
response to Diego, I think you have two examples of active voice they are both showing a subject in action so I'm not so sure you understand the difference. Active voice is when there is a subject present whom is doing an action but Passive voice is when something is being done but there isn't a clue as to who is doing it.
Giovanna Murray
Per 2
Grammar Girl discusses about active voice and passive voice. She explains that a sentence uses active voice when the subject does the action; however, when a sentence uses passive voice, the subject is the receiver of the action. Grammar Girl also states that using passive voice is not grammatically incorrect, but it is not the best choice to use frequently. Passive voice is mostly used by politicians, when the actor are unknown, and when a sense of mystery is intentionally placed in the sentence.
Examples:
(1) "... the federal budget must be sent to both houses of Congress by the first Monday ..."
The subject is "the federal budget," which receives the action.
To make the sentence use active voice, the sentence should be changed to "they sent the federal budget to both houses of Congress by the first Monday."
(2) "... individual appropriations bills are often delayed, or changed in a way that makes them ..."
The subject is the "individual appropriations bills," which receives the action. To make the sentence use active voice, the sentence should be changed to "they delay the individual appropriations bills, or change it in a way that makes them ..."
Response to Justin:
Your summary shows you know the difference between an active voice and passive voice. One advice I have is that you could have shown a clearer understanding if you identified the two different voices used for your examples.
It's fun to be able to here different people talking in different perspectives...although you may only be able to focus mainly on one when listening to 2 voices. In this case those 2 voices are active and passive voice. That is what this weeks grammar girl is about...Active voice is is when the subject is doing the action, and is the easiest one to use.
Ex.1
Yahir plays videogames.
In this sentence, Yahir is the subject and he is doing the action which is "plays videogames".
Then, we move to passive voice perspective which is when the subject is no longer doing the action but receiving it instead. (If you don't know who is taking the action)It's not incorrect to use the passive voice but many other individuals prefer to use the active voice, and the clash of the 2 is what make actice users irritated of those who use passive voice.
Ex.2
The Chicken is being roasted by the chef.
In this case, the subject is the chicken but it's not doing anything.
If you remember the difference between the 2 you should be fine...
This weeks comment goes to Fernando C. You give such a brief explanation but straight to th point. I like that cause I wish I could do the same. So yeah I can tell that you get this concept. Good Job and Keep up the good work!! =)
A passice voice, the target of the action is promoted to subject. Politicians seem to use alot of passive voice.passive-voice sentence the subject is the receiver.
Ex.The people were rioting
I type a comment about grammer girl every week on tuesday for English
Seems like you understand this alot Francisco.
In this weeks Grammar Girl she talks about the difference between passive voice and active voice sentences. Passive voice sentences are not incorrect, but they can at times be vague and awkward. Using an active voice while writing tends to be the most effective and straight foward way. Active sentences tells the subject doing the action while passive sentences tell the subject receiving the action.
For example,
1. I shot the sheriff.
active voice, shows me doing the action of shooting.
2. The sheriff was shot.
passive voice, shows the sheriff being shot.
In this weeks podcast, Grammar Girl explained passive and active voice. She explained that passive voice is when the subject is getting the action done to them. In the active voice, the subject is the one doing the action. She also explained that the passive voice isn't grammatically incorrect, and sometimes it can be better than the active voice.
Ex. "I pulled out my uniform..." This is the active voice.
Ex. "I dressed my nephew". This is also active voice.
Luis,
You show that you understand the podcast. However, you should go over your post. You wrote "here" when you were trying to write "hear".
On a good note,
Good Job
This week's Grammar Girl is on Active voice vs. Passive Voice.
In active voice, the subject is doing the actions; while in passive voice, the subject is receiving the action. She explains that using passive voice is not wrong, but its just that often it's not the best way to phrase a sentence and it may sound it bit awkward and vague. Another problem is that in passive voice, sometimes people leave out who is actually doing the action to the subject, and that may cause some misunderstanding. But if you don't know who is doing the action then passive voice may be the best to use. If you know who is doing the action, then you should use active voice.
EXAMPLE #1:
"...Harvey Milk’s fight for gay rights..."
Here you are using active voice to show that Harvery Milk is doing the action which is fighting for gay rights.
EXAMPLE #2
"...she is helping this man no matter what..."
Here i believe its passive voice because you don't really know who is doing the action to whom.. but at the same time it may be passive voice because "she" is doing the action to the "man"... (feel free to express your opions...)
Wow i have to give it to fernando s., Great summary, very creative and interesting! your examples were very good as well and very discriptive... great job
Dechristinize,
i would have liked to see a better summary and examples. its all very vague and even though it shows some understanding i'd would have liked to see more.. cause it didnt help me very much when i was trying to understand exactly what passive and active voice was...
-Michelle Couto
In grammar girl, she talked about the difference in active voice and passive voice. Active voice is when the subject is doing the action. As where in a passive voice you don't know who is doing the action. Grammar girl explains how it's better to use an active voice if you know what the subject is doing to avoid the sentence to be vague. But if you want to be mysterious a passive voice will do.
Example: "House is trying to show Cuddy that he cares."
The subject is House and he is the one doing the action.
Example: "Cuddy was shown that she is cared about."
The subject of the sentence is Cuddy but she isn't doing anything therefore making the sentence passive.
-Rocio p.2
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Shawn, your summary seems really short and doesn't show that you understand the concept. Plus, you only gave one example.
Hey everyone! This week on Grammar Girl was pretty awesome. She talks about Active Voice vs. Passive. She said that in an active sentence the subject is doing the action.
For example: "Anne enjoys flowers."
"Anne" is the subject and she is doing the action.
And in the passive voice, the target of the action gets promoted to the subject position.
For example: "Flowers are enjoyed by Anne."
Now, the subject of the sentence is the flowers, but the flowers aren't doing anything. Anne is.
I hope my examples helped out
Good-night & Peace out!
-Sandra Fernandez Pd.2
My response is to zacadisco93
I loved the way you wrote your summary, but i think you should of cut it down just a little bit because most of the time students don't like to read long explanations. They get bored, but other than that you were great :]
In today's Grammar Girl episode the dispute between passive and active voice was being discussed. Active voice keep the sentence with a subject taking part in an action at the start of the sentence. Passive voice is the subject of the sentence that is not beginning a part of the action. The subject is more of a "recipient" of the action.
ex1 Phil loves to to spend time with his brother.
His brother loves to spend time wit Phil.
ex2 I miss that girl so much
That girl knows I miss her so much
Phil I feel as if your examples would be a little bit better if they include two subjects as in two people in them.
good job
-Dominique Thomas
This week, Grammar Girl discusses Active Voice versus Passive Voice, and when the time is appropriate to use either. Using Active Voice, the subject in the sentence is doing the action. In the passive voice, the target of the sentence is promoted to the subject, though that person isn't doing an action.
"I love my cat"
I--is the subject. and loves is the action. Active Voice.
"The cat knows I love her"
The cat, not the subject, is promoted to being the subject, and the recipient of love.
Rocio, I understand your examples, but the last example isn't inverted correctly. It should be "Cuddy knows that she is cared FOR", and not about.
-Vianney Bernabe p.2
Response to Great Gilly
Your first example did not have two subjects, for example you are supposed to have a subject make an action to another subject, like John punched Rocky.
Jesse Machorro the response above this.
Sorry I forgot to put my name in the response.
this week on grammar girl talked about active and passive voice.is the subject doing the action .passive voice receives the verbs actions. in this passage grammar girl doesn't admit this as grammatically incorrect, it just doesn't get your point across .
ex:
active voice- Finally, Hillary swept in and moved down a line of huggers toward a raised platform centered in the room.
passive voice - "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true."
*active voice is the subject doing the action.
This week Grammar Girl talked about passive voice and active voice she said that active voice is when someone is doing the action in a sentence for example:
1. Justin hates apples.
and if it was in passive voice the sentence would be
2. Apples are hated by Justin.
Yazmin Llamas per.5
Grammar Girl's podcast entitled "Active Voice vs. Passive Voice" Grammar Girl discussed the difference between these two voices. She explained that Active voice is when the subject is doing the action and using passive voice means the subject is receiving the action.
Ex:
1.) Meursault doesn't understand what a sin is. ( active voice)
2.) Sins are not understood by Meursault.( Passive voice)
Yazmin,
Great examples, it shows that you really understand the topic I suggest that you write what passive voice is as well so we can not the difference.
Michelle Vasquez
Per: 2
Grammar Girls lesson was on Active and Passive voice this week. In active sentence the subject performs the action denoted by the verb, whereas in a passive sentence the subject is no longer active, but is, instead, being acted upon by the verb.
Ex. I love getting creative with an essays imagery. (Active)
Ex. The white tablets intoxicated the soldiers.
(Passive)
response to philip: It seems like you didn't really understand passive voice. You're example fell under active voice rather than passive.
Diana P2
There is a noticeable difference between active and passive voice. Active voice is basically the subject doing the action. Passive voice is when the receiver of the action is the subject. To tell if it's in passive voice, the subject isn't taking a direct action, will always contain a past participle, (usually in the form of a to be verb but not always) and it will sometimes contain the word by. Although a sentence is in passive voice, it doesn't mean that it's incorrect. It's recommend to not use passive voice when the sentence is awkward, wordy or vague. Sometimes passive voice can be used to emphasis the receiver rather than the giver.
Ex. The con man duped the guileless new neighbors.
A simple active voice.
Ex. They were balked by culpable traffic.
This is a passive voice since the receiver, they, is the subject. Also it contains the word by.
-Sara L. per.2
smelendez92 -
I don't understand your passive voice example. Shouldn't it be active since I is the subject and don't care is the action. I would suggest writing the sentence as: As long as what is written about me not true, I don't care. Besides that, I really like your active voice example.
-Sara L.
In this week's Grammar Girl the topic of Passive voice and Active voice is covered. the difference between these two is that in an active voice, the subject is the one that does the action. Passive voice in the other hand, the action gets moved to the place of the subject. its said that using active voice is better. Passive voice is not wrong to use but it often gives the feeling that you are trying to obscure something. another reason to avoid using passive voice is that often, the thoughts are not expressed in the best way possible. or it might just sound a little bit awkward. Passive voice is great when you don't really know who has performed a certain action.
Example 1:
I am currently writing this sentence for grammar girl. This sentence is in the active voice.
Example 2:
An example from my economics class:
"The drop of the stocks were caused by the economy". This sentence I believe is in passive voice.
Response to Fernando C:
your summary did explain the main points covered in the assignment but i believe you could have added more. in your example for passive voice you said:
"Ex. The president has the power to veto laws. (passive)"
Im pretty sure this is not passive. A good way to say this in passive would be:
"The laws were vetoed by the president"
Emilio Ruiz
This week's grammar girl discusses active and passive voice. Active voice has the subject directly doing the action to an object.
Ex: "Andy hugged Laura who was heavily weeping." (Sidewalk 2)
The passive voice has the object become the subject. My previous sentence can be put in a passive voice if I re-word it this way:
Ex: The heavily weeping Laura was hugged by Andy.
Laura was previously the object of the sentence but now she is the subject which just kind of sounds awkward in my opinion.
@ XxOILIMExX:
I don't think the action gets moved to the position of the subject; I believe it is object that gets moved. The action just kind of stays where it is in middle or at the end of the sentence doesn't it?
I keep forgetting this. My name is Deonte Lang of period 2 and I approve the previous message as well as this one.
In today's Grammer girl. Grammar girl speaks up of passive voice and how to avoid it. She first talks about active voice. In a active sentence the subject is doing the action. Next is Passive voice. In passive voice the target of the action gets promoted to the subject position. Passive sentences aren't incorrect; it’s just that they often aren't the best way to phrase your thoughts.So when you put sentences in passive voice, it's easy to leave out the agent doing the action. But passive voice is often a good choice when the action isn't known or doesn't matter, or if you want to create some mystery around your sentence. So to remember, in a passive-voice sentence the subject of the sentence is the receiver of the action.
Example: Marilyn mailed the paper.
marilyn (subject)is doing the mailing (verb).
Example: The letter was mailed by Marilyn. The letter (subject) was being mailed (verb).
XxOILIMExX your post is very good. You summed up everything. But grabbed all the important fact. Good job with you summary and your examples. We grabbed like the same information.
Today # 11 Grammar Girl explains how to write a passive voice and active voice. An active voice sentence the subject is doing the action. a passive voice is basically the target of the action that gets promoted to the subject position. passive voices are not necessarily in correct there just mainly good to use when you want a character to be unknown, or they don't really matter.
Ex: (Passive Voice)
There was a birthday party.
Ex: (Action Voice)
Allen had a birthday party.
My comment will go to Justin. In your comment for Lucy you made a small mistakes. Underneath is your comment, and underneath that will be the corrections.
Lucy your shows that you get it. I help me when I was trying to come up with example from my old work.
Lucy yours show that you get it. It helped me when I was trying to come up with some examples for my own work.
In this weeks grammer girl was about Active voice and Passive voice.The home girl grammer girl explained that active voice is when the subject is doing an action.A Passive voice is where the action gets credit to the subject position.
active voice ex.I shred like a beast everytime i get a hold of a guitar
passive voice ex.The guitar squells when Joseph plays with it
Point blank what Grammaer Girl is saying is that in a sentence the subject of the sentence is the action.
Ex: "i babysit my cousins everyday."
The subject is I.
Ex: "Travis is running."
The subject is Travis.
Casseda Cloter (per.5)
In this weeks grammar girl i learned that the over usage "of" can be bad for your writing habits. Of is a preposition.
1.ex of a bad sentence- Shes the wife of Trevor Benjamin.
"Of" is especially useful when you are dealing with double possessives.
"of" to be useful when I'm dealing with a complex trail of possession.
ex2.-"He's the cousin of my neighbor's brother" than "He's my neighbor's brother's cousin."
Trevor Benjamin
per 5
Jeffrey Lopez
Per. 5. LATE
Grammar Girl 46 talks about active voice and passive voice. Active voice is an active sentence which the subject is doing the action. Passive voice is the action in the subject form. Many people feel that it is incorrect but it is just awkward and vague.
Action:
I do grammar girls all the time.
Passive:
The grammar girls are always done by me.
Response to Zepshizzle:
Your second example doesn't make sense. "Guitar is what he does" is incorrect because if you switch the sentence to an active sentence it would be "He does guitar".
This week’s grammar girl went over “Active Voice versus the Passive Voice”. From this lesson I was taught that in an active sentence, the subject is doing the action as where in a passive sentence the subject is receiving the action. The active voice is the simplest compared to the passive voice just because the passive voice phrases your thoughts in a weird way and might mislead it. Now, if you were to use it when you’re talking about an action that was committed, but you don’t know who did the action, and then you can’t name that person making you use the passive voice. If you know who did it you use an active sentence.
Examples:
1. Evan loves Roro.
2. I have to get in shape for soccer season.
Response:
Diego, for your examples I don’t see how they can work because active and passive voice sentences are actions that is one where it’s being made and the other where its being taken.
Finally graded.
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