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Unit Goals   Grammar Notes     Warm-up

Unit Goals In this unit you will learn about:
  1. Passive voice
    "The letter was received at noon."

  2. Different types of passive voice
    "I was given a test yesterday"
    "An exam will be given every week"






Grammar Notes
  1. Sentences are passive when the subject does not perform the action.

  2. The subject receives an action or is the result of an action.

  3. The passive voice is formed with a form of be and the past participle of the main verb.

  4. Passive sentences focus on the noun that is the receiver or result of an action rather than the noun that is performing the action (the agent).

  5. Passive sentences are used to make sentence sound more impersonal e.g. It was said that there is no excuse for not coming to class on Monday.


Warm-up

Rewrite the following sentences into the passive voice.

1. Leonardo da Vince painted the Mona Lisa.




2. Edison invented the telegraph.


3. People write poems in every culture




4. People all over the world know her name.


5. People may have written written poems in the Stone Age.


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