Active and Passive Voice
Transition between agent and object:
a brief introduction
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Active and Passive Voice
Tipologia: Notas de estudo
2013
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Active and Passive Voice
Transition between agent and object: a brief introduction
The vet medicates the cat
The cat is medicated by the vet
The player will wear the helmet
The helmet will be worn by the player
Function
- (^) To highlight the agent and the subject of a sentence.
- (^) Agent (doctor, directors and players)
- (^) Subject (cat, contract and helmet)
- (^) In the passive voice they change the position because in this case the agent is less important than the subject.
The preposition by or with
- (^) When we want to mention the agent of the action we can use the preposition BY or WITH, depending on the case.
- (^) He was hit with a baseball bat.
- (^) The machine was fixed by the engineer.
- (^) The area is cleaned by the cleaning staff.
- (^) The chair was made with recycled materials.
Exceptions
- (^) Transitive verbs like become, get, have, let, resemble, fit, lack, suit and like CAN NOT be used in the passive.
- (^) The party was liked. (wrong)
- (^) A house is had by us. (wrong)
- (^) Intransitive verbs are not followed by objects.
- (^) It rains. (right)
- (^) It rains something. (wrong)