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15 Cards in this Set
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What is voice?
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Tells whether a verb is active or passive.
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What is meant by active voice?
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Active voice means that the subject if the agent.
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What is meant by the agent of a sentence?
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The agent of a sentence is the person or thing that is performing the action represented by the verb.
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What is meant by passive voice?
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Passive voice means that the agent is not the subject.
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What is meant by saying a verb is in past tense?
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This means that the action represented by the verb took place in past time.
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What is meant by saying a verb is in present tense?
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This means that the action represented by the verb took place in the present.
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What is meant by saying a verb is in past tense?
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This means that the action represented by the verb will take place in future time.
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What is the grammarian's clue that he is looking at a perfect tense verb?
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Perfect tense verbs use the helping verbs; has, had, and have.
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When the helping verb "had" is used, what does this indicate?
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That the verb is in the past perfect tense.
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When the helping verb "has" is used, what does this indicate?
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That the verb is in the present perfect tense.
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When the helping verb "will have" is used, what does this indicate?
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That the verb is in the future perfect tense.
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What helping verbs indicate that the emphatic tense is being used?
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do, does, did.
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When the helping verb "did" is used, what does this indicate?
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That the verb is in the past emphatic tense.
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What is meant by a verb being transitive?
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That it has a direct object.
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Why are passive verbs always transitive when it is clear they never have direct objects?
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Because they always have a noun that is receiving the action represented by the verb. This noun is the subject.
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