Active voice creates clear and concise sentences which are much easier to follow, understand, and subsequently edit, but passive voice has its uses as well. For example, passive voice can be used to write a sentence where the subject is unknown. For example, a newspaper might write, ''The...
Rewrite the following sentences by changing the active voice into passive voice(将下列主动句改写成被动句。每空格限填一词):1. They use knives for cutting things.Knivesfor cutting things.2. Did he break the window yesterday afternoon?the windowby him yesterday afternoon?3. They have sold out ...
Is Changing the Voice of English Sentences Accompanied with any Changes in Their TensesLanguages provide their speakers with a variety of constructions that help them communicate effectively and efficiently. Two out of these constructions are active and passive forms. Some languages as Persian believe ...
4. Change passive to active voice When it comes toimproving your writing, one of the most straightforward changes you can make is to revise your sentences from passive voice to active voice. Not only is an active agent more concise, but it also makes your writing sound more clear and dire...
题目【题目】Rewrite the fllowing sentences by changing the active voice into passive voice(将下列主动句改写成被动句。每空格限填一词):We will put on an English play in our school next week.An English play willon in our school next week. 相关知识点: ...
The aims ofthis writing are (1) to know the kinds oferrors on changing active voice into passive voice into passive voice, and (2) to know which tense has the highest frequency of errors. The errors are identified on four categories, namely : omission, addition, misformation and misorderin...
Another rule in advertising copy is to stick with the present tense and the active voice. The present tense implies immediacy and puts the reader into an advertisement quickly. The active voice allows the writer to make a stronger statement than the passive voice. Too many facts is likely to...
Mary did not understand such sentences as “She is blue Today”, “You are yellow”,“He has a green thumb (大拇指)”,“He has told a little white lie”and so on. And she went to her teacher for help. Mary : Mrs Smith, there is a colour in each of these sentences. What do ...
Furious green clouds — Green clouds sleep furiously or something? It’s a grammatically correct phrase that doesn’t mean anything. It’s total nonsense. Then it gets to the point where the sentences start making sense. DAVIDSON: Let me just say, it’s “Colorless green ideas sleep furiousl...
Superbly, Jastrow in two simple sentences shows us how SOMites are so well trained to make sure SOM wool is pulled tightly over their eyes. And Western culture's school systems are still teaching and training this classical SOM Boole! Notice Jastrow's arbitrary objective demarcation of classical...