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Verb Tenses
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Events occur at same time, keep same tense-if not, then change the tenses
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Active Voice-Action is done by its subject Passive Voice-Action done to the subject
Voice
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Why?-less direct-less forceful-less concise-requires more words to express thought-results in awkward writing-hard to identify the performer of the action-sounds weak
Avoid Using the Passive Voice
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-you don’t know the performer of the action-don’t want to reveal the performer of the
action-you want to emphasize the receiver more
than the performer of the action
Use passive voice when
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“Lie” means to rest, to recline, to remain in a lying position-no object
“Lay” means to put, or place something somewhere-obect
Six Troublesome Verbs
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“Sit” means to rest in a upright, seated position
-no object
“Set” means to put or to place somewhere-objectMnemonic Device (help you to remember)I sit with an i; I set the book on the edge with
an e.
Sit and Set
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“Rise” means to gain an upward direction-no object
“Raise” means to move (something) in an upward direction; to grow or to bring to maturity-object
Mnemonic Device (helps you to remember)“All rise and raise the window.”
Rise and Raise
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The form the verb takes to show attitude of the person using the verb
3 Types of Moods
Mood
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-A fact-An opinion-A question
Indicative
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-A direct command-A request
Imperative
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-A suggestion-A necessity-A condition contrary to fact-A wish
Subjunctive