English Reviewer
*Voice of Verbs
-The voice of the verb refers to the relationship
between the subject of the sentence and the verb.
*Active Voice and Passive Voice
Active Voice
-The subject is the DOER of the action.
-The subject performs the action of the
sentence.
- Subject + Verb + Object
Example:
Rose painted the room.
S V O (receiver)
Passive Voice
-The subject is the RECEIVER of the action.
- Object + Verb + Subject
Example:
The room was painted by Rose.
O V S
TAKE NOTE:
A verb changes its form when you change
the voice from active to passive.
*Present Tense
-Use the present form of helping verbs
+ past participle of the verb.
- (am, is, are + past participle)
Example:
Active Voice
- The government gives relief goods.
S V O
Passive Voice
- Relief goods are given by the government.
REGULAR VERBS
IRREGULAR VERBS
*Past Tense
- (was, were + past participle)
Active Voice
- Sam ate the nuggets.
S V O
Passive Voice
- The nuggets were eaten by Sam.
O V S
*Future Tense
- will, shall + past participle
Active Voice
- Someone will take my gadgets.
Passive Voice
-My gadgets will be taken by someone.
*Simple Past and Past Perfect
Past Tense
-It is a tense that expresses actions or tasks done in the past.
*Simple Past Tense
- Is used to indicate actions or tasks that occurred / happened only at once at a specific point in
time in the past.
- Can be formed by adding –d / -ed (regular verbs) or change the spelling (irregular verbs).
Example:
1. Alex (travel) traveled to
Japan when she was young.
2. My aunt (wash) washed her car yesterday.
3. Liz (leave) left the party early last night.
*Past Perfect Tense
-Is used to indicate actions that happened already before another past action.
- Can be formed by using the word “had” + past participle.
Example:
1.I had eaten breakfast
before I went to school.
2. The Titanic had received many warnings before it hit the iceberg.
*Phrases, Clauses, and Sentences
*Phrase
- Is a group of words that stands together as a single grammatical unit, typically as part of a
clause or a sentence.
- Provide additional information about the subjects, predicates, and / or objects.
- Acts as a NOUN, ADJECTIVE, ADVERB
Example:
• Noun phrase – best friend
• Adverb phrase – slowly walking
• Adjective phrase – very pretty
Examples:
On the Table
Finished the task
Matthew and his friends
*Clause
-Is a group of words having both a subject and a verb.
Independent Clause
- One that can stand alone as a sentence.
- It has subject and verb.
- It has a complete thought
Examples:
1. I went to school.
2. Jane ate pasta.
3. They found a seashell.
Dependent Clause
- Is one that cannot stand alone as a sentence
- It is called in dependent clause because it needs to be attached in independent clause.
Examples:
1. although I wasn’t feeling well.
2. because she was hungry.
3. while walking at the beach.
*Sentence
- is the largest grammatical unit in the English Rank scale.
- it refers to a group of words that begins with a capital letter and ends with any of these three
punctuation marks: the period or full stop, the exclamation mark and the question mark.
*Sentence
- Sentence has two parts; the subject, and the predicate.
Subject
- refers to the part of sentence that tells who or what the sentence is about.
Examples:
Predicate
- tells what the subject does with an action verb or describes the subject using a linking verb and a
complement.
Examples:
