July 2012 Moms

For All You Grammar Nerds

I saw this on FB and had to share!

How to identify the passive voice:

If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb and it makes sense, you have the passive voice.

Ex:

1) "She was killed."  -->"She was killed [by zombies]" = makes sense = passive voice.

2) "Zombies killed her." --> "Zombies killed [by zombies] her." = nonsense = active voice.

 

YW. Geeked

 

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