2. Verbsare about action (body or mind) or states of being 3. They
can exist in the present, past, or future 4. Present : I write for
an online magazine. 5. Past : Brett sang for the band. 6. Future :
Jason will do vocals at the band reunion next year.
7. Verbs!
We will talk more about this when we discusssubject/verb
agreement , but subjects and verbs need to agree. 8. See the
pronoun chart on the course wiki 9. Theperson of the verbis who is
doing the action. 10. They can be in the first, second, or third
person. 11. First : I will require 750 words for the first paper.
12. Second : You will print the new issue. 13. Third : She is going
to buy a plant.
14. Verb Voice
Verbscan take on two kinds of voice:activeandpassive . 15. With
very few exceptions, your writing should be in theactive voice .
16. Active voicemeans that the subject of the sentence is
performing the action described by theverb . 17. Marc plays bass
for the band. 18. Passive voicemeans the action described by
theverbis performed on the subject. 19. The bass was played by
Russ.
20. Verb Tenses
Professor Wend is going to put together a verb tense chart for
the course wiki. (See page 494 in The DK Handbook) 21. See the the
verbs page on the wiki for more notes about verbs.
22. Group Work
Get in your groups... 23. Write a sentence each for
present/past/future tense about the status of your process analysis
paper. 24. Write a sentence each for first/second/third person
about the current semester. 25. Write TWO sentences each for active
and passive voice about a sport.