UNIT 2 EMPHASIZING OBJECTS “Language Information 3 ” L.E.L.I. Yazmin Vanessa Barrera

UNIT 2 EMPHASIZING OBJECTS

 “Language Information 3 ”  

L.E.L.I. Yazmin Vanessa BarreraIdea original

E.T.E. Karim Juárez Cortes.Modificación y Diseño

PASSIVE VOICE USE:

It is used when the person who carries out the action ( the agent) is unknown, unimportant or obvious from the context.

Unknown: My new laptop was stolen yesterday from my schoolbag.

Unimportant: The plants are watered every afternoon.

Obvious: The house was burgled. ( by a burglar).

We use the passive voice when we want to show that the action of the verb is more important than the person or thing doing or causing the action.

Examples:

The first mercury thermometer was invented in 1714.

Oliver Twist was written by Charles Dickens

Passive voice is used in English to focus the attention on the action.

Example:The telephone was invented in 1876.

Note that we are not mentioning who invented the telephone but the action itself.

FORM + Form “to be” + verb in past participle.

Examples:

A letter was written.

A slice of cheese was eaten.

Some televisions were stolen last night.

Some books were bought yesterday.

A form of verb be is used in passive statements. It’s singular or plural to agree with the subject, and it also tells the tense of the passive construction.

TURNING FROM ACTIVE TO PASSIVE

Check this table to make clear the differences between active voice and passive voice

Passive Voice The telephone was invented by Alexander

Graham Bell.

Active Voice Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

To rewrite the active voice sentence check the next:

1) The object of the active sentence becomes the subject in the passive sentence.

2) The subject of the active sentence becomes the object of the passive sentence (or is dropped).

ACTIVE SUBJECT VERB DIRECT OBJECT

Millions of people Use The internet every day.

PASSIVE SUBJECT VERB AGENT

The internet Is used by millions of people everyday.

PASSIVE WITH BY + AGENT

The agent of the a verb is the person, people or thing which performs the action. If it is necessary to mention it, use the preposition by.

For example: The paper was invented by the Chinese.The first mercury thermometer was invented in 1714 by Gabriel Fahrenheit. The compact disk was invented in 1965 by James Russell.

FORMS Tense Active Voice Passive Voice

Simple present Mario feeds the dog three times a week.

The dog is fed three times a week.

Present Continuous Mario is feeding the dog at the moment.

The dog is being fed.

Simple past Mario fed the dog yesterday.

The dog was fed yesterday.

Past Continuous Mario was feeding the dog.

The dog was being fed.

Present perfect Mario has fed the dog. The dog has been fed.

Future simple “will” Mario will feed the dog.

The dog will be fed.

Modal Mario should feed the dog.

The dog should be fed.

Modal CAN Mario can feed the dog

The dog can be fed

MORE EXAMPLESACTIVE VOICE PASSIVE VOICE

They don’t speak English in the office.

English isn’t spoken in the office.

They don’t advertise our products on the internet.

Our products aren’t advertised on the internet.

He didn’t sell the company in 1999.

The company wasn’t sold in 1999.

He didn’t develop new software for this computer.

New software wasn’t developed for this computer.

Our company produces cars. Cars are produced by our company.

INVENTIONS

One of the greatest inventions through the history was the telephone, It was invented in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell; it was designed to express the communication across wide areas; through the history a lot of changes have being occurred to this amazing invention like functions and size.

THE AIRPLANE The airplane was another very important

invention. It was invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright in 1903. It was designed to allowed people and products to quickly move across the world.

REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHY

Lingo4U ( 2001 – 2010) “Passive Voice” Consultada el día 9 de

junio del 2010.

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive

Patricia K. Werner (2007) Mosaic 1 Grammar McGraw-Hill

Sue Kay & Vaughan Jone (2000) Inside Out Intermediate

Macmillan

Sue Kay & Vaughan Jone (2000) Inside Out Upper Intermediate

Macmillan

Virginia Evans, Jenny Dooley, Enterprise Student’s book

Grammar 2, Express Publishing, 2000. USA

Chris Redston and Gillie Cunningham, face2 face Intermediate

Student’s book. Cambridge University Press. 2006. United

Kingdom

Jack C. Richards with Jonathan Hull and Susan Proctor. New

interchange 2 ( 1997) Cambridge University Press. United

Kingdom

IMAGES TAKEN FROM:

Thermometer:

http://themoderatevoice.com/20426/more-newspaper-corporate-

illness-mcclatchy-will-cut-workforce-10-percent/

Oliver twist book :

http://www.teachersbookdepository.com/title.aspx?bookid=9649

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Televisions

:http://www.freevectors.net/details/vector+televisions

Paper: http://iis.berkeley.edu/students

Compact disk:

http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=hdwr

&db=bks&fname=/SGI_EndUser/PChall_XL_OG/apb.html

Telephone: http://www.peterme.com/archives/000275.html

Compact disk:

http://www.krunker.com/2007/08/28/the-compact-disk-is-25-year

s-old/

Television:

http://digo-lo-que-pienso.blogspot.com/2007/12/la-televisin.ht

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Watered: http://www.plantea.com/choose-plant.htm

Burglar:

http://ntcf.wordpress.com/2010/09/03/say-no-to-masoli/

Airplane:

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blairplane.htm

Airplane2:

http://www.chevroncars.com/learn/history/history-airplanes

Telephone:

http://www.pascalecarrington.com/portfolio/telephones.html

Animated telephone:

http://en.loadtr.com/animated_telephone-421445.htm

Animated airplane:

http://www.projectearthinternational.org/OS2008.html