For me this blog was very stressful and kind of difficult. I didnt realize we had a blog due this week so when I got back from break I had to jump to work to get this done. I used an old paper from my english class last year about the prositution of native american women in the United States.
Prostitution had been founded in nineteenth century Western America. Women of all types provided services, including the Native American women. Women became involved in this business because the economy grew at a rapid pace, with jobs for men but very few opportunities for women. With towns loaded with young single men, women used the resources they had available to them and sold their bodies for meager pay. Prostitution did not stay within city boundaries, spreading to the frontier lands, making it easy for Native American women to join the business. Prostitution presented dangerous situations of drug and alcohol abuse, bodily harm, disease, and posttraumatic stress.
Prostitution was founded in nineteenth century Western America. Services were provided by all types of women including the Native American women. Women became involved in this business because the economy was growing at a rapid pace, with jobs for men but very few opportunities for women. With towns loaded with young single men, women used the resources they had available to them and sold their bodies for meager pay. Prostitution did not stay within city boundaries, spreading to the frontier lands, making it easy for Native American women to join the business. Prostitution presented dangerous situations of drug and alcohol abuse, bodily harm, disease, and posttraumatic stress.
Although I was able to find examples in this paper, it wasn't easy. My question this week is whether or not my examples and their corrections are right. I get confused easily on how to make passive active and what the difference is. So if my wonderful classmates could tell me if I did it right, and if not give some examples of ones that are right. Thanks everyone for putting up with me.
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Ok I hope that I have this right, and sorry if I tell you the wrong thing!! I'm pretty sure the only example of true passive voice in your original text is the first one: "Prostitution had been founded in nineteenth century Western America." This is passive voice because it includes a conjugation of the verb "to be" and also a past participle ("founded"). I think that the other two examples are actually fine the way they are, because they are just past tense - I actually think you changed them into passive voice in your revisions. That is, neither of the other two examples in your original include "to be" verbs, nor participles. I suppose you could change the first one to say something like "Prostitution began in nineteenth century America" or something like that, so that neither of those two elements are present.
ReplyDeleteDon't quote me on this, because I'm pretty out of school mode myself and may be mistaken on my understanding of the passive and active voices, but I hope my explanation at least makes sense! I hope you had a great break, and don't let homework stress you out too much right off the bat! :)
actually, your originals AND your revisions are still in passive voice. Although this first one is probably just fine as is ("Prostitution was founded"), I could still use a transitive verb in the active voice: i.e.,
ReplyDelete"Prostitution flourished in nineteenth-century America.... All types of women--including Native American women--provided services... Although the economy was booming, men benefited from that growth, not women, who found very few job opportunities."