The Passive Voice Table of Contents The Passive Voice................................................................................. 2 Tenses in the Passive Voice ................................................................ 2 Modal Verbs and Future in the Passive Voice ................................. 3 The Passive with ’get/have’ ................................................................ 4 When to use the Passive ..................................................................... 5 Verbs with two objects ........................................................................ 5 The Passive with ’by/with’ .................................................................. 6 Talking about what other people say ................................................ 6 The Passive Voice The subject is the starting point of the sentence, the thing we are talking about
He would go to Tallinn tomorrow if he had time. German: the subjunctive Wenn du Zucker hättest, könnten wir jetzt Tee trinken. `If you had sugar, we could drink tea now.' English: They demanded that he leave the room. If I were you, I wouldn't buy this car. - transitivity: sleep, kiss Manam (a Kairiru-Manam language; Malalyo-Polynesian) dang i- aka- gita i water be hot `he heated the water' II. Relational categories for verbs: voice The workers painted the house. The house was painted by the workers. Das Buch wird von zwei Autoren geschrieben. `The book is being written by two authors.' Heute Abend wird viel getanzt. `There will be a lot of dancing tonight.' III. Agreement categories for verbs: I am/he is/they are sleeping he sleeps Grammatical categories for adjectives I
Charles dickens was a nineteenthcentury author whose work is well known today. One of the reasons Dickens remained so popular is that so many of his stories are remains available not only as books but also as movies, plays, and television productions. We all knew from our childhood the famous story of uncle Scrooge and Tiny Tim. know We often saw a television version of A Christmas Carol at see holiday time. Voice: Passive v. Active (pg 225) In the active voice, the subject is doing something. Subject Verb The committee made the decision. _________ _____ In the passive voice, something is being done to the subject. Subject Verb The decision was made by the committee. _______ _________ Why choose one over the other? In general, choose the active voice to achieve direct, economical, and forceful
complement. verb phrase verbifraas A phrase with a lexical verb as its head. A verb phrase We should have phoned you. introduces the predicate part of a clause, indicates the clause type, and shows contrasts in tense, aspect, voice and mood. Parts of the sentence lauseliikmed English Estonian Definition Example subject alus, subjekt Identifies the doer or agent of an action, a state or an A dog ate my homework yesterday.
1. Active/Passive Active - the professor teaches the students. Passive - The students are taught by the professor 2. Present Simple [VERB] + s/es in third person. Tegevus on korduv või tavapärane. You speak English. I play tennis. Cats like milk. The train leaves tonight at 6 PM. I am here now. Active= Once a week, Tom cleans the car. Passive= Once a week, the car is cleaned by Tom. 3. Present Continuous [am/is/are + present participle]. Tegevus toimub/ei toimu praegusel hetkel. You are watching TV. You are learning English now. I am studying to become a doctor. I am meeting some friends after work. Active= Right now, Tom is writing the letter. Passive= Right now, the letter is being written by Tom. 4. Past Simple [VERB+ed] or irregular verbs. Tegevus algas/lõppes minevikus täpsel ajal. . You called Debbie. I saw a movie yesterday. I finished work, walked to the beach, and found a nice place to swim. I lived in Brazil for two years. I studied French when I was a child. Active
not). A transitive verb - can take a direct object and transitive verbs are kiss, throw etc. An intransitive - verb does not take a direct object. For example words as sleep, cry. Relational → Voice (Describes the action between the verb and subject/object) Active voice – When the subject is an agent (the doer of the action), the verb is in an active voice. For example: The cat ate the mouse. Cat is the agent and the subject.
garden. Kui me tahame teada, kes või mis oli tegija, saame moodustada passiivi küsimuse Who/ What ... by?: Who was the book written by? Passiivi moodustatakse be (is/ was jne) + mineviku kesksõna (past participle) ehk III põhivorm (done/ cleaned/ seen jne). Aktiivilause sihitisest saab passiivilause alus. Aktiivilause tegusõna jääb samasse ajavormi, kuid muutub passiivseks. Aktiivilause alus ehk tegija jäetakse ära või pannakse lause lõppu prepositsiooni by järele: Present simple passive am/ is/ are + III pv (cleaned/ seen jne) Many accidents are caused by careless driving. Present simple active: Somebody cleans this room every day. passive: This room is cleaned every day. Past simple passive was/ were + III pv (cleaned/ seen jne) We were woken up by a loud noise during the night. Past simple active: Somebody cleaned this room yesterday. passive: This room was cleaned yesterday. These rooms were cleaned yesterday.
the complementizer that or nothing. The article that/which/ they read last term. Non-restrictive relative clauses must be introduced by a relative pronoun who/what/ which. That article, which they read under protest last term, ... Bound morpheme, bound allomorph- morpheme or allomorph that cannot stand on its own as a word. A bound morpheme is one whose allomorphs are bound Intransitive verb verb that is not transitive There are two voices in English, the active voice and the passive voice. Active Voice Paul congratulated David Passive Voice David was congratulated by Paul (in verbs) ATTRIBUTIVE adjectives come before the noun which they modify. PREDICATIVE adjectives come after a verb. POSTPOSITIVE adjectives come immediately after the modified noun. Cranberry morpheme- morpheme (or allomorph) that occurs only in one word (more precisely, only one lexeme) Valence- in linguistics is always a number from one to three. It can be thought of as a
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