For our fourth session I addressed again some issues Ozan specifically asked me to clarify: First, active vs passive voice, which can be a strange concept to native speakers, as we don’t usually realize we are using one or the other until it is explicitly noted. When I was giving Ozan a general explanation and showing him examples, I explained how it is easy to fall into passive voice when writing academic essays and that’s not good; I showed him an excerpt from an old paper I wrote for an anthropology class that my teacher marked up in red almost exclusively for use of passive voice. At first I think Ozan was a bit confused, but the examples in my other resources were clear and I told him it’s nothing more than a grammatical pattern, where passive will always be subject + auxiliary to be verb + main verb in past participle form. For Ozan’s confusing distinguishing rules of perfect continuous in present and future, I had to do some grammar refreshing myself, but with a few worksheets, sample sentences (which I paired in a comparison/contrast way) plus a practice quiz, I think Ozan felt pretty confident with those issues in the end.
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