D-14.02 Use Passive vs Active Verbs in Sentences as Participial Adjectives, in Adjective Clauses

Parts One to Four of Chapter 9: the Passive Voice (“the Media”) of WorkLife English Grammar 5: Language & Culture in Depth, pages 163-182 20 pages Who It’s For: Teachers, Helpers, & Intermediate to Advanced English-Language Learners Ready to Compare Forms, Patterns, & Uses of the Active vs. Passive Voices   Why It’s Useful: In English grammar, verbs have five attributes: Person, Number, Tense + Aspect; Voice; Mood. The first three of these are taught / learned in Basic through Intermediate Lessons; the last, Mood, is nearly always Imperative or Indicative—until the Subjunctive comes up in (much) more advanced instruction on recommendations, demands, hypotheticals, or the like. The fourth aspect, Voice, involves only two choices: Active, in which the Sentence Subject “performs the action of the verb,” and Passive, in which the Subject is “acted upon.” As soon as language learners begin communicating in (formal) writing while cultivating their style, they’re likely to need