Capsule 4 DUOC

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  1. As you may have seen in class, you can often
  2. say things in two ways in the active or the
  3. passive. Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in the active
  4. sentence. The focus is more on the inventor, in this
  5. case, Mary Anderson.
  6. The windshield wiper was invented by Mary Anderson in the
  7. passive sentence.
  8. The focus is more in the windshield wipers.
  9. You can also use the passive when it isn't known,
  10. or it is an important who does or did the
  11. action. For example, my car was a stolen last week.
  12. I don't know who stole my car.
  13. Volvo cars are made in Sweden.
  14. It's not important who is specifically made the cars.
  15. In the case off these important inventions by women, you
  16. can use by to say who did the action.
  17. For example, the windshield wiper Waas, invented by Mary Anderson