Transcript Active Voice: verb

What do we mean by the Voice of a
verb?
In English there are 2 actual Voices.
The Active & the Passive but there is also
some kind of Middle Voice.
What are the important aspects of
each Voice?
Active Voice: verb ‘be’ & the past
participle of the main verb.
Right answer: basic English Syntax (SVO) &
normal formation/ use of the verb tenses
Passive Voice: be + past participle of main
verb.
Name the 4 steps we follow to turn an
AS into a PS.
Only transitive verbs can be made Passive.
All transitive verbs can be made Passive.
Right answer: Some, like ‘have’, cannot.
No intransitive verb can be made Passive.
Right answer: Some can if used as
dependent (on a preposition).
All 12 of the Active Tenses can be made
Passive.
Right answer: All Simple Active Tenses can
but only 2 Continuous.
We do not always use the Agent in the
Passive.
And when don’t we?
English Passive verbs do not always
translate well into Greek.
With Double-object Verbs, we always
transform from the person-object.
Right answer: We prefer the person-object
but we can transform from the thingobject, too.
We use the Auxiliary Passive form when a
verb does not transform from its personobject.
What is a Special Case in the Passive?
What is the impersonal construction
of the Special Passive Case for this?
It was assumed that he had come from the
north.
And the personal construction?
He was assumed to have come from the north.
What is the Auxiliary Passive Form?
And what is the Causative Form of the
verb?
How is the Causative Form used?
What are the other causal
constructions of ‘have’ & ‘get’?
Questions are worthy of special attention in the
English Passive.
Why?
‘Get’ can substitute for ‘be’ in informal usage in
both the Passive Voice & the Causative Form.
The Passive Voice is more informal than the
Active.
Right answer: It’s the other way round.
To turn a PS into an AS, we use the same 4 steps
as for an AS into a PS.
Right answer: In reverse order.
The Middle Voice does not exist as a tense
formation in English.
Verbs in English contain a ‘reflexive’ sense in
themselves.
Right answer: Some of them do.
Verbs in English form the Middle Voice by adding
the Reflexive Pronouns.
Right answer: Again, some of them do.
Some verbs in English change meaning if you add
the ‘-self’ pronouns after them.
Like, which?