Adverbial Phrase and

Passive Voice
Tonny Meng-Lun Kuo
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December 2, 2013

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Department of English Instruction

Week

Topics

Assignments

10

Clauses (I)

(6) Maurer: Units 10, 11

11

Clauses (II)

(7) Maurer: Units 12, 13, 19,and 20

12

Discussion on pedagogical
grammar

Quiz 3

13

Passive/Gerunds and Infinitives

(8) Maurer: Units 14, 15, 16, and

17

14

Modals/Conditional sentences

(9) Maurer: Units 4, 5, 22, and 23

15

Grammar activities presentation

16

Grammar activities presentation

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Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, students will be able:

1. to identify the difference among simple,
compound, and complex sentences
2. to transform adverb clause into adverb/
adverbial phrases
3. to review the usage of passive voice, passive
stative and correctly edit the common errors.
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Task 1: Classifying adverb

clauses
1. Think about the following questions:

What is adverb clause?

What are the five different types of adverb clause?

Is adverb clause independent or dependent clause?

2. Form a group of 4-5 people, and get an envelope.

3. Classify the subordinators into correct sets in 2 mins.

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Task 1: Classifying adverb

clauses

Adverb clause Adverb clause Adverb clause Adverb clause Adverb clause
of time
of place
of reason
of condition
of contrast
after

anywhere

as

even if

although

as soon as

where

because

if

even though

before

everywhere

now that

only if

though

by the time

wherever

since

unless

whereas

in case

while

once
since
till/until
when/while
whenever

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Sentences: simple,
compound, and complex

Simple sentence: contains a subject and a verb,

and it expresses a complete thought.

Compound sentence: contains two independent

clauses joined by a coordinator.
- coordinators: for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so.
(FANBOYS)

Complex sentence: has an independent clause

joined by one or more dependent clauses.
http://eslbee.com/sentences.htm

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Task 2: Analyze the sentences

1. Find your partner and get a piece of worksheet
entitled Adverbial Clause Worksheet.
2. Read the sentences, and then label the sentences
into SS(simple sentence), PS(Compound
sentences), or CS(complex sentences).
3. Analyze the structure of each sentence.
4. Pair work. Discuss with your partner and check the
answers.

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Example
after= subordinator
After they finished studying, Juan and Maria went to the movies.(CS)
! ! dependent clause! ! ! ! ! ! independent clause

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1. Alejandro played football, for Maria went shopping. (PS)

2. Alejandro played football, so Maria went shopping.(PS)
3. Alicia goes to the library and studies every day. (PS)
4. I tried to speak Spanish, and my friend tried to speak English.
5. Juan and Arturo play football every afternoon. (SS)
6. Juan and Maria went to the movies after they finished studying. (CS)
7. Some students like to study in the mornings. (SS)
8. The students are studying because they have a test tomorrow. (CS)
9. The teacher returned the homework after she noticed the error.(CS)
10.When he handed in his homework, he forgot to give the teacher the last
page.(CS)

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Task 3: adverb clause to

phrase

p. 347

[Individual work] Read the sentences. Circle the

subjects in both clauses and connected the circles.
If the subjects refer to the same person or thing,
shorten the sentence by reducing or changing the
adverb clause to a phrase. If the subject are
different, write cannot be shorten.

People who were called by instructor write the

assignment sentences on blackboard.

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Adverb phrases
1. Some adverb clauses can be shorten to adverb
phrase by reducing the clauses or changing them.
2. Negative adverb contain the work not or never before
the participle.

Before we danced, we did some wormup for preparation.

>Before dancing, we did some
worm-up for preparation. (changed)
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Adverb phrases
1. Some adverb clauses can be shorten to adverb
phrase by reducing the clauses or changing them.
2. Negative adverb contain the work not or never before
the participle.

We had a wonderful time while we were

dancing.
>We had a wonderful time while
dancing. (reduced)
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Steps of adverb clause to

adverb/adverbial phrase

Conditions:
- adverb clause of time: after, before, since, and while
(Keep the subordinator)
- when > Up/upon + V-ing
- adverb clause of reason: because, since, as(Omit the
subordinator)

Steps:
1. Make sure both sentences refer to the same person or
thing.
2. Omit subject pronoun
3. Change verb to its -ing form.

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Things you should be

noticed

1. You can only reduce an adverb clause to adverb

phrase only if the subjects in both clauses of the
sentences refer to the same person or thing.
2. Keep the subordinator for fear of confusing
sentences.
3. A present perfect or past perfect verb in an adverb
clause can be changed to:
having + past participle in an adverbial phrase.
(p. 345, Grammar Note 7)

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Passive Voice

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Task 4: Editing

p. 244

[Pair work] Read the student essay about the crop

circle in Great Britain and elsewhere. There are
nice mistakes in the use of the passive. The first
one has already corrected, find the correct eight
more.

Discuss the mistakes and try to be able to explain

the reason in your own words.
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Passive Voice
1. Passive voice and active voice
2. Formation of passive voice: be + past participle
3. Conditions of using passive voice
4. Structure:
- direct use
- use modals and modal-like auxiliary
- form with get: get + past participle (informal)
- have/get + object + past participle

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Passive Voice

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Passive Voice

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Passive Voice

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Passive Voice

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Stative Passive

Stative passive: the passive voice used to describe

situations or states.
- form: be + past participle
served as adjective
- Most do not have corresponding active sentence
- Most do not contain a by phrase

The United States is

composed of 50 states.
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Reporting opinions or ideas

Form: It + be + past participle + that clause

e.g. allege, assume, believe, claim, say, think
- only the verbs can be followed by a that clause

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Task 5: Belief, thoughts,

opinions

pp. 258-259, Exercise 3

1. Complete the sentences with a present or past

passive form of the verbs in parentheses().
Add as or to as needed.
2. Rewrite sentences 2, 3, 5, 7, 9and 10 using
passive sentences with it + be + past participle +
that clause.
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Assignment 12/2

Text book:
- Unit 20 Review (p. 357)
- Unit 14 Review (p. 249)
- Unit 15 Review (p. 265)

See you
next week!

Quiz:
- adverbial phrase
- passive voice
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