Running head: passive voice in english and vietnamese
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- Form of passive.
| Passive Voice in English
Usage. It goes without saying that passive voice is the basic and common grammatical point in English. Moreover, English people tend to use it more often. Thus, there are some possible cases in which passive voice is generally used: The target of the action gets emphasis to the position of the subject. Take “David embraced Amy” as an example. Changing into passive, it becomes “Amy was embraced by David”. Rather, Amy is just the recipient of David action. Obviously, we can see that the focus of this action has changed from David to Amy. Using passive voice, It is easy to leave out the person or thing doing the action or when you do not sure who do the action. For instance: “The car is stolen yesterday”. In this sentence, the writer does not know who does this action for sure. PASSIVE VOICE IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE 4 Some researchers point out that politicians often intentionally use passive voice to obscure the idea of who is the doer of the action. Some famous sayings such as “mistake was made” of Ronald Reagan, “Bombs were dropped”, “Shots were fired”. Sometimes the passive voice is more polite than active voice when the doer is left out as in the sentence “A big mistake was made”. Form of passive. Subject + finite form of to be+ pp (past participle) + (by+ agent) This is just the basic form. Here are passive structures corresponding to 12 tenses in English 1. Simple Present: am/is/are + Past Participle (P.P) Ex: English is spoken here. 2. Simple Present Continuous am/is/are + being + P.P Ex: English is being spoken here. 3. Simple Past was/were + P.P Ex: English was spoken here. 4. Past Continuous was/were + being + P.P Ex: English was being spoken here. 5. Present Perfect has/have + been + P.P Ex: English has been spoken here. PASSIVE VOICE IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE 5 6. Present Perfect Continuous has/have + been+ being + P.P Ex: English has been being spoken here. 7. Past Perfect had + been + P.P Ex: English had been spoken here. 8. Past Perfect Continuous had + been + being + P.P Ex: English had been being spoken here. 9. Simple Future will + be + P.P Ex: English will be spoken here. 10. Future Continuous will + be + being + P.P Ex: English will be being spoken here. 11. Future Perfect will + have + been + P.P Ex: English will have been spoken here. 12. Future Perfect Continuous will + have+ been + being + P.P Ex: English will have been being spoken here. Besides some structures above, English people also use some other grammatical points in passive voice to convey their ideas: The verb “get” is used in passive voice – meaning sentence instead of “be” in some cases in the example “the dog got hit by a car yesterday”. PASSIVE VOICE IN ENGLISH AND VIETNAMESE 6 “Have”, “get” in causative passive form: have/get + something + pp Ex: John gets his car fixed They get their house painted green Double passive: there are two passive voice parts in a sentence. Ex: The project is expected to be finished in the next two years. P assive voice with reporting verbs (consider, believe, think, prove…..): This kind of passive usually used in formal text such as newspaper, description or scientific processes or when the speaker want to talk about what is general said Ex: John is considered as the best student in his class or It is considered that he is the best student in his class. tải về 217.43 Kb. Chia sẻ với bạn bè của bạn:
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