RTV-3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gerund, Active Voice, Wwe Network
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Redundant phrases - jewish rabbi, exactly identical, old antique, local home team. Climb up - climb, give encouragement to - encourage. They put in an appearance - they appeared. Different word - drive fast - speed. Ex. a car went off the bridge. Change: went off - careened or swerved. Active voice = subject performs the action. Passive voice = the subject receives the action. Big buckets of water were guzzled by the lost hikers. Change to: the hikers guzzled big buckets of water. Old songs that cheered their hearts were sung by the choir. Change to: the choir sung old songs that cheered their hearts. - can usually avoid by placing modi er as close as possible to that which is modi ed. Wrong: walking into the room, applause greeted him. Change to: walking into the room, he was greeted by applause.
