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No capitalization. I have no idea what the sentences mean. Perhaps in context, e.g. during a documentary videotape editing session, they would make sense.
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| #3 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 7:24 am 'Change the voice' vs 'Change the narration' |
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| Mister Micawber wrote: |
I have no idea what the sentences mean. Perhaps in context, e.g. during a documentary videotape editing session, they would make sense.
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Q1- Change the voice (0f the following sentences)
1- I hate you.
(You are hated by me) I have changed the voice, Mister Micawber.
Q2- He said to me, 'Where do you live?"
He asked me where I lived. I have changed the narration, MM.
Now could you please tell me how you find the wording of the questions? Would you say they are incomplete? If so, please bring them out of the realm of oddity.
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| #4 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:18 am 'Change the voice' vs 'Change the narration' |
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Hi Tom
I wouldn't have understood you original question, either. ;)
If you're telling students to transform sentences in a certain way, then the goal should be stated more specifically (clearly):
1. Change the following sentences to the passive voice.
2. Change the following sentences to indirect speech (reported speech).
Just a note on changing active sentences to passive sentences (since it sounds like you might possibly be creating exercises for people):
Make sure that both sentences would be natural and realistic sentences. "You are hated by me" is grammatically correct, but not terribly natural (i.e. very unlikely to be used -- which a Google search for that sentence corroborates and a BNC search is even less enthusiastic about it.) ;)
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| #5 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 12:13 pm 'Change the voice' vs 'Change the narration' |
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| Amy wrote: |
| Change the following sentences to the passive voice. |
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| 2. Change the following sentences to indirect speech (reported speech). |
Dear Amy
A lot of thanks.
But if you want the students to change the following sentences both ways, how would you find the following sentences? Does it sound natural to you?
1- Change the following sentences into active or passive.
Here the teachers gives mixed active and passive and wants the students to figure out the nature of the sentences and change them into the other voice. Same is my question for narration.
Why not the with indirect speech, Amy? You wrote the passive voice but indirect speech.
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| #6 (permalink) Thu Nov 30, 2006 14:12 pm 'Change the voice' vs 'Change the narration' |
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Hi Tom
Aha, both ways. Yes, I guess your sentence would be OK. Or you could say:
Change the voice to active or passive in each of the sentences.
A really tough test of their skills would be to add "where appropriate" to the end of the sentence. :lol:
As to your other question, you could possibly omit 'the' and just say 'passive voice' but you cannot add 'the' and say 'the indirect speech'. I'd say this is mainly connected to the fact that voice is a countable noun and speech isn't (in this context).
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