English Instruction
Active
Matching Characters' Actions and Motivations
Match each action to the corresponding motivation
Amit invites a new student to sit with
him.
wants to help others fit in
Chad lifts weights at the gym.
wants to be stronger

Estella hugs a friend
wants to make others feel better
Keshawn hides behind her parents.
wants to avoid being noticed

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Explanation:

Matching each action to the corresponding motivation goes thus:

Chad lifts weights- wants to be stronger

Amit invites a new student- wants to help others fit in

Estella hugs a friend- wants to make others feel better

Keshawn hides behind her parents- wants to avoid being noticed

d. murder of a son and cooking the son for a feast

procne murdered her son and served him to tereus, her husband and her son's father. she did this out of revenge. tereus raped her sister, philomela, and cut her tongue out to keep her from talking. philomela managed to communicate it to procne and procne sought revenge.

tantalus murdered his son and fed him to the gods because he was angry with the gods. the gods punished him by putting him in a pool of water that evaporates when he tries to drink and having fruit hang just out of his reach.

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i'm unsure whether this sentence is active or passive voice.

    i want to be there when the final match is played at wimbledon.

when we marked it, the teacher said that it was passive voice, but isn't the subject ("i") doing the action, which makes it active? can someone explain?

passive-voice

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    it's not the matrix clause that is passive, but just the subordinate clause functioning as complement of "when", i.e. the final match is played at wimbledon. it's a 'short passive' in that there is no internalised complement (by phrase). the subject of the subordinate passive clause is "the final match". "i" is subject of the matrix clause. – billj jun 13 '17 at 15: 29

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