Hello everyone, so today i'm going to talk about passive voice again, and in this blog i'm going to do some exercise either. So let's just start it
What is the passive voice?
In general we tend to use the active voice. That is when a subject does an action to an object.
The difference between active and passive voice
While tense is all about time references, voice describes whether the grammatical subject of a clause performs or receives the action of the verb.
Here’s the formula for the active voice:
[subject]+[verb (performed by the subject)]+[optional object]
Passive voice is a quality of a verb that describes when the subject of a sentence is acted upon by the verb. For example:
The sheriff was shot.
(This is an example of the passive voice. The action is done to the subject.)
When the opposite is true (i.e., the subject of the sentence is acting out the verb), it is said to be in active voice. For example:
I shot the sheriff.
(This is an example of the active voice. The subject does the action.)
In other words, a verb is said to be in the "passive voice" when its subject does not perform the action of the verb but has the action of the verb performed on it.
The passive voice is used when we want to emphasize the action (the verb) and the object of a sentence rather than subject. This means that the subject is either less important than the action itself or that we don’t know who or what the subject is.
My laptop was stolen. (The object – now the subject = My laptop / action= was stolen)
Passive: Napa Valley is known for its excellent wines.
Active: [Many people] know Napa Valley for its excellent wines.
Passive: Twenty civilians were killed in the bomb explosion.
Active: Someone killed twenty civilians in the bomb explosion.
And this is how to make a passive voice:
And here are my exercise:
Text 1
Mobile Phone
A mobile phone (also known as a wireless phone, or cellular telephone) is a very
small portable radio telephone.
The mobile phone can be used to communicate over long distances without wires. It
works by communicating with a nearby base station (also called a "cell site") which
connects it to the main phone network. As the mobile phone moves around, if the
mobile phone gets too far away from the cell it is connected to, that cell sends a
message to another cell to tell the new cell to take over the call. This is called a "hand
off," and the call continues with the new cell the phone is connected to. The hand-off
is done so well and carefully that the user will usually never even know that the call
was transferred to another cell.
As mobile phones became more popular, they began to cost less money, and more
people could afford them. Monthly plans became available for rates as low as US$30
or US$40 a month. Cell phones have become so cheap to own that they have mostly
replaced pay phones and phone booths except for urban areas with many people.
Text 2.
Tsunami
The term of “tsunami” comes from the Japanese which means harbour ("tsu") and
wave ("nami"). A tsunami is a series of waves generated when water in a lake or the
sea is rapidly displaced on a massive scale.
A tsunami can be generated when the sea floor abruptly deforms and vertically
displaces the overlying water. Such large vertical movements of the earth's crust can
occur at plate boundaries. Subduction of earthquakes are particularly effective in
generating tsunamis, and occur where denser oceanic plates slip under continental
plates.
As the displaced water mass moves under the influence of gravity to regain its
equilibrium, it radiates across the ocean like ripples on a pond.
Tsunami always bring great damage. Most of the damage is caused by the huge mass
of water behind the initial wave front, as the height of the sea keeps rising fast and
floods powerfully into the coastal area.
Answer:
So that is all about my blog today, i hope you guys understand about how to make a passive voice and like to meet you guys on my next blog, so see ya(◍•ᴗ•◍)
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