Passive Voice and Grammar
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Passive Voice | When the subject isn't doing the verb |
| Equation for Passive Voice | to be verb + past participle |
| To be verbs | is, are, was, were, be, been, being, become, has been, have been, had been, will be, would be, should be, could be |
| Phrase | a grouping of words that does not have a subject-verb pair |
| Clause | a grouping of words with a subject-verb pair |
| Independent clause | a subject-verb pair that can be it's own sentence |
| Dependent clause | a subject-verb pair that cannot be it's own sentence |
| Types of dependent clauses | adjective, adverb, noun |
| Noun jobs | direct, indirect object, predicate nominative, subject, object of the preposition, object of the infinitive |
| Simple Sentence | one independent clause |
| Compound Sentence | a sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses |
| Complex Sentence | a sentence with one independent clause and at least one dependent clause |
| Compound-Complex Sentence | at least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses |
| Adverb Clause Questions | how, when, where, why, to what extent, how much, how long, under what conditions |
| Adverb clauses begin with what type of words | subordinating conjunctions |
| 5 examples of that word | when, because, before, after, since |
| Adjective clause questions | which one, what kind, how many |
| Adjective clauses begin with what type of word | relative pronouns |
| 5 examples of that word | who, that, which, whose, whom |
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