Active and Passive ~ MAWWAR . . .

Active

It takes in raw information (or data) at one end, . . .

she knows post their math problem to her.

she goes to her letterbox

she takes a letter off the top of the pile, . . .

she moves to the next letter in pile.

it works amazingly hard . . .

the computer stores each pixel as a number.

they run from right to left instead of left to right.

people started selling programs . . .

it can run a word-processing program one minute- . . .

they all ran in their own . . .


Passive

it was probably the worst prediction in history.

they are embedded in everything from microwave . . .

storing information is better known as memory . . .

the computer can be reprogrammed as many times as you like.

they can be changed easily

computer programs have really been invented.

the software in a computer that other programs are built on top of.

... is usually written by the hardware manufacturer.

. . . it's known as firmware

the operating system that definitively made this breakthrough was,  of course, Microsoft Windows, written by Bill Gates

"How Do The Computers Work" Active and Passive Sentences by Doa Ibu

• it was probably the worst prediciton in history (active)
• six decades later and the global population of computers has now risen to something like one billion machines (passive)
• to be fair to Watson, computers have changed enormously in that time (passive)
• in the 1940s, they were giant scientific and military behemoths commissioned by the government at a cost of millions of dollars apiece (active)
• a computer is an electronic machine that processes information-in other words, an information processor (active)
• she piles them up on her desk until she gets around to looking at them (active)

How Do Computers Work? (RAMPAGE)

After we read article “How Do Computers Work?” we can found some active voice and passive voice sentence. We ho pe the sentence that we found are correct. This is some sentence that we found:Active voice1.      Thomas Watson, boss of the giant IBM Corporation, reputedly forecast that the world would need no more than "about five computers.
2.      What makes computers flexible enough to work in all these different appliances?
3.      How  come they are so phenomenally useful?
4.      how exactly do they work?
5.      What is a computer?
6.      She is so good that everyone she knows posts their math problems to her
7.      she goes to her letterbox and finds a pile of new math problems waiting for her attention
9.      she takes a letter off the top of the pile, studies the problem, works out the solution, and scribbles the answer on the back.
10.  She puts this in an envelope addressed to the person who sent her the original problem and sticks it in her out tray, ready to post.
11.   Then she moves to the next letter in the pile. You can see that your friend is working just like a computer.
12.  What is a computer program?
13.  You just give it your instructions (called a program) and off it goes, performing a long and complex series of operations all by itself.
14.  What's the difference between hardware and software?
15.  What is an operating system?
16.  the computer  then works through all the pixels.
17.  your computer probably has an LCD screen capable of displaying high-resolution (very detailed) graphic.
Passive voice:
1.      To be fair to Watson, computers have changed enormously in that time
2.      They are embedded in everything from microwave ovens to cellphones and digital radios.
3.      Her letterbox is her input; the pile on her desk is her memory; her brain is the processor that works out the solutions to the problems; and the out tray on her desk is her output.
4.      if you wanted a home computer to do almost anything at all, you had to write your own little program to do it.
5.      They're "soft" in the sense that they are not fixed:
6.      and that's why millions of us can no longer live without them!
7.      In the 1940s, they were giant scientific and military behemoths commissioned by the government at a cost of millions of dollars apiece
8.       They are embedded in everything from microwave ovens to cellphones and digital radios
9.       What makes a computer different from a calculator is that it can works all by itself.
10.   Performing along and complex series of operations all by itself.
11.   By contrast, a computers hardware the bits and pieces from which it is made (and the peripherals, like the mouse and printer, you plug into it)
12.  Is usually written by the hardware manufacture
13.  the operating system that definitively made this breakthrough was, of course, Microsoft Windows, written by Bill Gates.
 

How Do The Computer Work ===> " H-Team

Active

1.      Back in the 1940s, Thomas Watson,boss of the giant IBM Corporation, reputedly forecast that the world would need no more than "about five computers."

2.      The beauty of a computer is that it can run a word-processing program one minute and then a photo-editing program five seconds later.

3.      the global population of computers has now risen to something like one billion machines.

4.      she goes to her letterbox and finds a pile of new math problems waiting forher attention.

5.      she takes a letter off the top of the pile, studies the problem, works out the solution, and scribbles the answer on the back. She puts this in an envelope addressed to the person who sent her the original problem and sticks it in her out tray,ready to post.

6.      from helping you to edit a photograph you've taken with a digital camera to displaying a web page, involves manipulating numbers in one wayor another.

7.      The hardware is what makes your computer powerful; the ability to run different software is what makes it flexible.

8.      Every one of these programs does different things, but they also do quite a lot of similar things too.

9.      they all need to be able to read the keys pressed down on the keyboard, store things in memory and retrieve them, and display characters (or pictures) on the screen.

10.  The operating system that definitively made this breakthrough was, of course, Microsoft Windows, written by Bill Gates.

Passive

1.      they were giant scientific and military behemoths commissioned by the government at a cost of millions of dollars apiece.

2.      they are embedded in everything from microwave ovens to cellphones and digital radios.

3.      You probably know that the photo is made up of millions of individual pixels (colored squares) arranged in a grid pattern.

4.      The BIOS is not, strictly speaking, software: it's a program semi-permanently stored into one of the computer's main chips, so it's known as firmware (it is usually designed so it can be updated occasionally, however).

5.      although we don't really think of it this way, the computer can be reprogrammed as many times as you like.

6.      Suppose you're back in the late 1970s, before off-the-shelf computer programs have really been invented.

How Do The Computer Work ["STARWARS"]

How Do The Computer Work

- Back in the 1940s, Thomas Watson, boss of the giant IBM Corporation, reputedly forecast that the world would need no more than "about five computers." (Passive)

- In the 1940 they were giant scientific and military behemoths commissioned by the government at
a cost of millions of dollars apiece (Active)

- What makes computers flexible enough to work in all these different appliances? (Active)

What is a Computer

- Taking in information is called input storing information is better known as memory (or storage), chewing information is also known as processing, and spitting out results is called output ( Active )

- She piles them up on her desk until she gets around to looking at them ( Passive )

- Each afternoon, she takes a letter off the top of the pile, studies the problem, works out the solution, and scribbles the answer on the back ( Passive )

- You can see that your friend is working just like a computer ( Active )

What is a computer Program

- As you can read in our long article on computer history, the first computers were
gigantic calculating machines and all they ever really did was "crunch numbers":
solve lengthy, difficult, or tedious mathematical problems ( Active )

- Today, computers work on a much wider variety of problems but they are all still ( Active )

What's the difference between hardware and software?

- The beauty of a computer is that it can run a word-processing program one minute and then a photo-editing program five seconds later ( Active )

- They're "soft" in the sense that they are not fixed: they can be changed easily ( Active )

- By contrast, a computer's hardware— the bits and pieces from which it is made (and the peripherals, like the mouse and printer, you plug into it)—is pretty much fixed when you buy it off the shelf. 

( Passive )

- That computers can do so many different jobs is what makes them so useful—and that's why millions of us can no longer live without them! ( Active ) 

What is an operating system?

- Suppose you're back in the late 1970s, before off-the-shelf computer programs have really been invented ( Active )

- A few weeks later, you tire of writing things and decide to reprogram your machine so it'll play chess ( Active )

- If you were writing lots of different programs, you'd find yourself writing the same bits of programming to do these same basic operations every time  ( Active )

- You can think of an operating system as the "foundations" of the software in a computer that other programs (called applications) are built on top of ( Active )

-  The operating system relies on an even more fundamental piece of programming called the BIOS 

( Active )

- They all ran in their own idiosyncratic ways with fairly unique hardware (different processor chips, memory addresses, screen sizes and all the rest ( Active ) 

- Then any application will work on any machine. ( Active )

- The operating system that definitively made this breakthrough was, of course, Microsoft Windows, written by Bill Gate ( Active )

How do the computer work (Avengers)

1.  How do the computers work?
-  Back in the 1940s, Thomas Watson, boss of the giant IBM Corporation, reputedly forecast that the      world would need no more than "about five computers (Active)
- Six decades later and the global population of computers has now risen to something like one billion machines! (Passive)
- To be fair to Watson, computers have changed enormously in that time (Passive)

2. What is Computer
-  A computer is an electronic machine that processes information—in other words, an information processor: it takes in raw information (or data) at one end, storesit until it's ready to work on it, chews and crunches it for a bit, then spits out the results at the other end (Active )
-  She puts this in an envelope addressed to the person who sent her the original problem and sticks it in her out tray, ready to post. (Active)
- Taking in information is called input,storing information is better known as memory (or storage), chewing information is also known as processing, and spitting out results is called output. (Passive)
- It works amazingly hard and gets incredibly hot in the process.(Active)

3    3. What is a computer program?

       - Today, computers work on a much wider variety of problems—but they are all still, essentially, calculations. (Active)

        - The computer stores each pixel as a number, so taking a digital photo is really like an instant, orderly exercise in painting by numbers! (Active)

         -  Hardly anyone writes programs any more.(Active)

      4. What's the difference between hardware and software?

       - The beauty of a computer is that it can run a word-processing program one minute— and then a photo-editing program five seconds later. (Active)

        - This is why programs are also called software.(Passive)

      5. What is an Operating System

    - That's the basic idea behind an operating system: it's the core software in a computer that (essentially) controls the basic chores of input, output, storage, and processing. (Active)

       - so it's known as firmware (it is usually designed so it can be updated occasionally, however). -> Passive

     

One Direction : "How Do The Computers Work" Active and Passive Sentences

How do the computers work?

1. Back in the 1940s, Thomas Watson, boss of the giant IBM Corporation, reputedly forecast that the world would need no more than "about five computers." -> Active

2. Six decades later and the global population of computers has now risen to something like one billion machines! -> Active

3. To be fair to Watson, computers have changed enormously in that time. -> Active

4. In the 1940s, they were giant scientific and military behemoths commissioned by the government at a cost of millions of dollars apiece; today, most computers are not even recognizable as such: they are embedded in everything from microwave ovens to cellphones and digital radios. -> Passive

5. What makes computers flexible enough to work in all these different appliances? How come they are so phenomenally useful? And how exactly do they work? Let's take a closer look! -> Active

What is a computer?

1. A computer is an electronic machine that processes information—in other words, an information processor: it takes in raw information (or data) at one end, stores it until it's ready to work on it, chews and crunches it for a bit, then spits out the results at the other end. -> Active

2. All these processes have a name. -> Active

3. Taking in information is called input,storing information is better known as memory (or storage), chewing information is also known as processing, and spitting out results is called output. -> Passive

4. Each morning, she goes to her letterbox and finds a pile of new math problems waiting for her attention. -> Active

5. She piles them up on her desk until she gets around to looking at them. -> Active

6. Each afternoon, she takes a letter off the top of the pile, studies the problem, works out the solution, and scribbles the answer on the back. -> Active

7. She puts this in an envelope addressed to the person who sent her the original problem and sticks it in her out tray, ready to post. -> Active

8. Then she moves to the next letter in the pile. -> Active

9. You can see that your friend is working just like a computer. -> Active

10.  Once you understand that computers are about input, memory, processing, and output, all the junk on your desk makes a lot more sense: -> Active

11.  Input: Your keyboard and mouse, for example, are just input units—ways of getting information into your computer that it can process. -> Active

12.  If you use a microphone and voice recognition software, that's another form of input. -> Active

13.  Memory/storage: Your computer probably stores all your documents and files on a hard-drive: a huge magnetic memory. -> Active

14.  But smaller, computer-based devices like digital cameras and cellphones use other kinds of storage such as flash memory cards. -> Active

15.  It works amazingly hard and gets incredibly hot in the process. -> Active

16.  That's why your computer has a little fan blowing away—to stop its brain from overheating! -> Active

17.  Output: Your computer probably has an LCD screen capable of displaying high-resolution (very detailed) graphics, and probably also stereo loudspeakers. -> Active

18.  You may have an inkjet printer on your desk too to make a more permanent form of output. -> Active

What is a computer program?

1.  As you can read in our long article on computer history, the first computers were gigantic calculating machines and all they ever really did was "crunch numbers": solve lengthy, difficult, or tedious mathematical problems. -> Active

2. Today, computers work on a much wider variety of problems—but they are all still, essentially, calculations. -> Active

3.  Everything a computer does, from helping you to edit a photograph you've taken with a digital camera to displaying a web page, involves manipulating numbers in one way or another. -> Active

4. Suppose you're looking at a digital photo you just taken in a paint or photo-editing program and you decide you want a mirror image of it (in other words, flip it from left to right). -> Active

5. You probably know that the photo is made up of millions of individual pixels (colored squares) arranged in a grid pattern. -> Active

6. The computer stores each pixel as a number, so taking a digital photo is really like an instant, orderly exercise in painting by numbers! -> Active

7. To flip a digital photo, the computer simply reverses the sequence of numbers so they run from right to left instead of left to right. -> Active

8. Or suppose you want to make the photograph brighter. -> Active

9.  All you have to do is slide the little "brightness" icon. -> Active

10.  The computer then works through all the pixels, increasing the brightness value for each one by, say, 10 percent to make the entire image brighter. -> Active

11.  So, once again, the problem boils down to numbers and calculations. -> Active

12. What makes a computer different from a calculator is that it can work all by itself. -> Active

13. You just give it your instructions (called a program) and off it goes, performing a long and complex series of operations all by itself. -> Active

14. Back in the 1970s and 1980s, if you wanted a home computer to do almost anything at all, you had to write your own little program to do it. -> Active

15. For example, before you could write a letter on a computer, you had to write a program that would read the letters you typed on the keyboard, store them in the memory, and display them on the screen. -> Active

16. Writing the program usually took more time than doing whatever it was that you had originally wanted to do (writing the letter). -> Active

17. Pretty soon, people started selling programs like word processors to save you the need to write programs yourself. -> Active

18. Today, most computer users buy, download, or share programs like Microsoft Word and Excel. -> Active

19.  Hardly anyone writes programs any more. -> Active

20. Most people see their computers as tools that help them do jobs, rather than complex electronic machines they have to pre-program—and that's just as well, because most of us have better things to do than computer programming. -> Active

What's the difference between hardware and software?

1. The beauty of a computer is that it can run a word-processing program one minute— and then a photo-editing program five seconds later. -> Active

2. In other words, although we don't really think of it this way, the computer can be reprogrammed as many times as you like. -> Active

3. This is why programs are also called software. -> Passive

4. They're "soft" in the sense that they are not fixed: they can be changed easily. -> Passive

5. By contrast, a computer's hardware— the bits and pieces from which it is made (and the peripherals, like the mouse and printer, you plug into it)—is pretty much fixed when you buy it off the shelf. -> Passive

6. The hardware is what makes your computer powerful; the ability to run different software is what makes it flexible. -> Active

7. That computers can do so many different jobs is what makes them so useful—and that's why millions of us can no longer live without them!  -> Active

What is an operating system?

1. Suppose you're back in the late 1970s, before off-the-shelf computer programs have really been invented. -> Passive

2. You want to program your computer to work as a word processor so you can bash out your first novel—which is relatively easy but will take you a few days of work. -> Active

3. A few weeks later, you tire of writing things and decide to reprogram your machine so it'll play chess. -> Active

4. Later still, you decide to program it to store your photo collection. -> Active

5.  Every one of these programs does different things, but they also do quite a lot of similar things too. -> Active

6. For example, they all need to be able to read the keys pressed down on the keyboard, store things in memory and retrieve them, and display characters (or pictures) on the screen. -> Active

7. If you were writing lots of different programs, you'd find yourself writing the same bits of programming to do these same basic operations every time. -> Active

8. That's the basic idea behind an operating system: it's the core software in a computer that (essentially) controls the basic chores of input, output, storage, and processing. -> Active

9. You can think of an operating system as the "foundations" of the software in a computer that other programs (called applications) are built on top of. -> Active

10. So a word processor and a chess game are two different applications that both rely on the operating system to carry out their basic input, output, and so on. -> Active

11. The operating system relies on an even more fundamental piece of programming called the BIOS (Basic Input Output System), which is the link between the operating system software and the hardware. -> Active

12. Unlike the operating system, which is the same from one computer to another, the BIOS does vary from machine to machine according to the precise hardware configuration and is usually written by the hardware manufacturer. -> Active

13. The BIOS is not, strictly speaking, software: it's a program semi-permanently stored into one of the computer's main chips, so it's known as firmware (it is usually designed so it can be updated occasionally, however). -> Passive

14. Operating systems have another big benefit. -> Active

15. They all ran in their own, idiosyncratic ways with fairly unique hardware (different processor chips, memory addresses, screen sizes and all the rest). -> Active

16. That was a big problem for programmers because it meant they had to rewrite all their programs each time they wanted to run them on different machines. -> Active

17. Then any application will work on any machine. -> Active

18. The operating system that definitively made this breakthrough was, of course, Microsoft Windows, written by Bill Gates. -> Active