LIN204H1 Lecture Notes - Linking Verb, Preposition And Postposition, Present Continuous
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Voice = relationship between verb + participants in the sentence e. g. they built a house near the lake. The subject does the action = active voice (doer of action is subject) The d. o. is directly affected by the verb (the undergoer) e. g. the house was built by them. (passive voice) Passive voice: a house was built by them. English grammar has a number of ways of packaging info in order to emphasize certain info or to suppress or background other info. Passive - when focus on the verb (e. g. building of a house) Object is more important than the subject, or sometimes we don"t know the doer. them or doer is not known, can be omitted. Passive - when don"t know the doer (who did the action) or we might know, but it is not important. Subject does not mean doer - subject in the structure is the beginning of the sentence before the main verb.
