1. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Review of tense and voice This presentation explains two different characteristics of verbs: tense and voice. Knowing this vocabulary will help you discuss sentence characteristics accurately.

2. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Verb tense specifies time of the action further past pastnow future past perfect past tensepresentfuture The team The team The teamThe team had played playedplays will play three games... yesterday.each week.tomorrow....when WSU beat them. Tense = Time

3. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Tense = Time Verb tense specifies time of the action further pastpastnowfuture past perfectpast tensepresentfuture The team had playedplayedplayswill play three games...yesterdayeach week.Tomorrow. …when their rival beat them.

4. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Voice = relationship between the subject and the action expressed by the verb Does the subject act? Is the subject acted upon? active voice passive voice

5. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Active Voice The students took the test on May 7. –subject = students –students performed the action of taking –active voice

6. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Passive Voice The test was given in the computer classroom. –subject = test –the test did not act (give) but received the action of giving –passive voice

7. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Marks of passive voice to be verb (is, are, was, were, have been) past participle –usually an -ed word—completed, organized, complained –irregular verbs have irregular past participles—given, taken, written, built

8. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Examples of passive voice Rome was not built in a day. Apples are fertilized with organic materials. Applicants’ race and gender are not considered.

9. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Past tense and passive voice Past tense and passive voice use past participles Use other markers to distinguish voice from tense

10. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Tense and voice together Transitive verbs have both tense and voice. –In active voice, the past participle identifies past tense. I completed the project. –In passive voice, the to be verb identifies tense. The project will be completed. The project was completed yesterday.

11. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Weak verbs and passive voice

12. 8/01For use with Technical Editing 3e Summary: Tense and Voice Tense = Time –Verb tense places an action in the past, present, or future Voice = relationship of the subject to the action in the verb –active voice: subject performs the action –passive voice: subject receives the action