Passive -> Active
Change to active voice:
The book was read by the librarian.
What is
The librarian read the book.
When writing a literary analysis essay, you always have to introduce WHO and WHAT in your introduction?
Who is the author and the title of the piece of literature
Change to active voice
The books were changed by Sue.
Sue changed the books
A person, place or thing
What is
a noun
A word used to describe a noun:
What is an adjective
Change to active voice:
Many items were sold by the students at the garage sale.
The Grade students SOLD many items at the garage sale.
The quote ends with a period, so where should it go?
Active or passive voice?
Mom reads the novel in one day.
active voice?
"Run" is what part of speech?
What is a verb
Name the preposition AND prepositional phrase...
Larry ate his dinner on the table.
Change to active voice:
Buenos Aires is visited every year by thousands of tourists.
What is
Thousands of tourists visit Buenos Aires every year.
What is a proper noun
Is this sentence in Active or passive voice?
The teacher always answers the students’ questions.
active voice?
He, I, his, she, her, they, their, them are all examples of what part of speech?
What are pronouns
Identify the adjective(s) in the sentence:
They live on a large, beautiful farm.
What is large and beautiful
Change to active voice:
The injured patient was helped in only 5 minutes.
The doctor/nurse/surgeon helped the patient in only 5 minutes.
*here we have to ADD THE SUBJECT, because it is not given in the passive sentence. (We imagine that the person who helped the patient is a doctor/nurse or surgeon)
What are the 4 things every sentence must have?
What is capitalization, punctuation, noun (subject), and verb
Bonus point if "complete thought" is said!
Active or passive voice?
The Grand Canyon is visited by thousands of tourists every year.
passive voice
the term for a word or phrase used to express a strong feeling or reaction
What is an interjection
Used to introduce questions, such as "who," "what," "which," "whom," and "whose".
What are interrogative pronouns
Change to active voice:
The delicious cake was baked by Mrs. Warnke
What is Mrs. Warnke baked a delicious cake
The format of a literary analysis paragraph
What is a topic sentence, introduce the quote, insert quote, analyze quote, and concluding sentence
Active or passive voice?
The deal is signed by the two kings.
passive voice
the term for a word that connects clauses or sentences, such as "and," "but," or "or"
What is a conjunction
This part of speech shows relationships between words such as location
What is prepositions