| 词汇 | grammar_british-grammar_passive-voice |
| 语种 | 英语、汉语、英汉翻译、汉英翻译 |
| 释义 | Passive voicePassive: active and passiveWe use the terms active voice and passive voice to talk about ways of organising the content of a clause:
The active voice is the typical word order. We put the subject (the topic or the theme) first. The subject is the ‘doer’ or agent of the verb:
In the passive, the person or thing that the action was done to becomes the topic or theme. We can leave out the ‘doer’ or agent, or we can place the ‘doer’ in a prepositional phrase (by + ‘doer’):
We use the passive when we want to change the focus of a clause, or if the doer of the verb is not important or not known or if we do not want to say who the doer is. Get passiveHave something donePassive: formsPassives with and without an agentPassive: usesPassive: other formsPassive: typical errors |
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