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The passive forms of a verb are created by combining a form of the "to be verb" with the past participle of the main verb. Other helping verbs are also sometimes present: "The measure could have been killed in committee." The passive can be used, also, in various tenses. Let's take a look at the passive forms of "design." For free diagnostic lesson: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-trial-class.html Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Passive and Active Voices
Verbs are also said to be either active (The executive committee approved the new policy) or passive (The new policy was approved by the executive committee) in voice. In the active voice, the subject and verb relationship is straightforward: the subject is a be-er or a do-er and the verb moves the sentence along. In the passive voice, the subject of the sentence is neither a do-er or a be-er, but is acted upon by some other agent or by something unnamed (The new policy was approved). Computerized grammar checkers can pick out a passive voice construction from miles away and ask you to revise it to a more active construction. There is nothing inherently wrong with the passive voice, but if you can say the same thing in the active mode, do so (see exceptions below). Your text will have more pizzazz as a result, since passive verb constructions tend to lie about in their pajamas and avoid actual work. For free diagnostic lesson: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-trial-class.html Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Four Verb Forms
The inflections (endings) of English verb forms are not difficult to remember. There are only four basic forms. Instead of forming complex tense forms with endings, English uses auxiliary verb forms. English does not even have a proper ending for future forms; instead, we use auxiliaries such as "I am going to read this afternoon." or "I will read." or even "I am reading this book tomorrow." It would be useful, however, to learn these four basic forms of verb construction. For free diagnostic lesson: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-trial-class.html Registration for seminars/workshops: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-seminar.html Website: www.lecturesbymarymoore.com Definitions: Verbs carry the idea of being or action in the sentence.
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Ask the question, "Who or what 'verbs' or 'verbed'?" and the answer to that question is the subject. For instance, in the sentence "The computers in the Learning Center must be replaced," the verb is "must be replaced." What must be replaced? The computers. So the subject is "computers." A simple subject is the subject of a sentence stripped of modifiers. The simple subject of the following sentence is issue: For free diagnostic lesson: http://www.lecturesbymarymoore.com/registration-for-trial-class.html
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Writers who try to rely too completely on the sound of English words for hints on how to spell often have trouble with some of the peculiar sound-spell combinations in the language. One apocryphal (apokrifil?) story tells about a girl who, when asked to spell "fish," wrote GHOT on the chalkboard. It makes perfect sense, of course, if it's the same "gh" we see in cough, the same "o" we hear in women, and the same "t" we hear in nation. (See NOTE on this story below.) A thorough acquaintance with prefixes and endings and roots (see elsewhere in this section) will help some, and studying the way words are broken down into sound units will help also. |
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