9A Unit 2 Grammar 1

• look • allow • examine • control • remove • watch • hatch 孵出 • raise • take • feed
looked allowed examined controlled removed watched hatched raised taken fed
Damin’s wife
sells
some of the fish.
Some of the fish
are sold
by Damin’s wife.
Example:
plant
every year
People plant a lot of trees every year.
A lot of trees are planted (by people) every year.
Practice
We take away rubbish from the river to keep water clean
Rubbish is taken away from the river to keep water clean (by us).
Do you know their past participles?
(一般现在时)
Passive voice: be + done
被动语态
(动词的过去分词)
The sentences tell us who or what does something by adding phrases with by.
Some of the fish are sold by Damin’s wife.
1 Who tied a piece of grass around the neck of each bird? 2 What catch fish for Damin? 3 What frightens the fish? 4 Who removes the fish from the cormorants’ mouths? 5 Who is teaching his grandson everything he knows?
Байду номын сангаас
The sentences often do not tell us who or what does something.
Some of the fish are sold.
The rest of the fish are divided between Damin’s family and the cormorants.
1.Their large feet are used to push them quickly through the water.
2.Catching fish is done for him by his 12 cormorants.
3.The fish are frightened by this. 4.A light is hung from the front of the raft. 5.The fish are then removed from the birds’
1 Sometimes a cormorant sits on Damin’s head. 2 The cormorants’ large feet are used to push them
quickly through the water. 3 Damin sets off on his bamboo raft with his birds. 4 Damin bangs the water with his pole. 5 At night a light is hung from the front of the raft.
Summary
1.The cormorants’ large feet are used to push them quickly through the water.
2. At night a light is hung from the front of the raft.
the simple present tense am /is/ are + done
• buy
bought
• steal
stolen
• write
written
• take
taken
• choose chosen
• throw
thrown
• make
made
• build
built
• send
sent
• hear
heard
Do you know their past participles?
被动语态
The sentences tell us who or what does something.
The cormorants catch fish for him.
Damin pushes the birds into the water with his pole.
A1 Answer these questions, saying what or who does each thing.
A3 Complete each blank in this passage with is or are and one of the verbs from the box. The first one has been done for you.
A newspaper reporter interviewed Damin just now.
mouths by Damin and thrown into a big basket. 6.Some of the fish are sold ,and the rest are
divided between Damin’s family and the cormorant.
.
A2 Read these sentences and mark them A for active or P for passive.