Passive Voice & Nominalisation

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What is passive voice?

The subject receives the action instead of doing it themselves.

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The tourist went to the car - active or passive?

active

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The tourist was killed by me. - Active or passive?

passive

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What are the reasons for passive voice?

1) Can decrease focus on agent of sentence and drasw attention to the recipient of the action. 2) The agent can be removed altogether. 3) Agent is obvious and doesnt need to be stated. 4) Agent is unknown $) Agent is long and complicated.

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What is Nominalisation?

Changes a verb phrase into a noun.

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What are the common suffixes of nominalisation?

-tion, is, y, -sion, -ment