Tài liệu 09) Passive and Active voice doc

Active / Passive voiceThe report was written by Nguyễn Phan Nam.. The report was written by Nguyễn Phan Nam.. Passive Voice: Nguyễn Phan Nam wrote the report.. Nguyễn Phan Nam wrote the

Active / Passive voice

The report was written by Nguyễn Phan Nam The report was written by Nguyễn Phan Nam

Passive Voice:

Nguyễn Phan Nam wrote the report

Nguyễn Phan Nam wrote the report

Active Voice:

Active / Passive voice

My finger was bitten by a dog

My finger was bitten by a dog

Passive Voice:

A dog bit my finger

A dog bit my finger

Active Voice:

Active / Passive voice

My first visit to Boston will always be remembered

by me

My first visit to Boston will always be remembered

by me

Passive Voice:

I will always remember my first trip to Boston

I will always remember my first trip to Boston

Active Voice :

Should you ALWAYS use

active voice?

 (Microsoft Word style and grammar check will always warn you if you have any sentence in passive

voice.)

When is it OK to use passive voice?

 Use passive voice when it makes

your writing simpler:

Nikola Tesla was regarded as a mad genius Few people really understood his ideas

Nikola Tesla was regarded as a mad genius Few people really understood his ideas

Here the writer intends to be unclear about who

regards Tesla as a mad genius Therefore it’s difficult to write the sentence in active voice.

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Hans Anderson

Greenwich Programmes, FPT University

Mathematics, University of Minnesota

Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN