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CAHSEE ELA 2.2 Writing: Modifiers and Passive Voice 308 Views
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CAHSEE ELA Writing: Modifiers and Passive Voice, Problem 2. How should this sentence be changed, if at all?
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- 00:03
Here's an unshmoopy question for you...
- 00:05
How should this sentence be changed, if at all? The newspaper article was written by Ted.
- 00:11
And here are the potential answers:
- 00:16
Okay, so what is this question asking?
- 00:18
Well, it wants to know if we can recognize something written in the passive voice...
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- 00:24
...and then... obliterate it.
- 00:32
We don't like passive voice any more than we like passive people.
- 00:39
So when we come across a sentence like this that doesn't just come out and say what the
- 00:43
subject of the sentence... did...
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...we have to rewrite it so that it is instead in the active voice.
- 00:51
Ted was performing the action... not the newspaper.
- 00:58
So... what is the gist of this sentence?
- 01:00
Ted wrote a newspaper article, right?
- 01:03
Right. So we need to just come out and say that.
- 01:06
Our answer is A.
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As in, "Atomic explosion."
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