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Which term describes the relationship between the action that a verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments?
Which term describes the relationship between the action that a verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments?
- Active
- Passive
- Diathesis
- Voice (correct)
What is the term for the voice in which the subject is the agent or doer of the action?
What is the term for the voice in which the subject is the agent or doer of the action?
- Active voice (correct)
- Diathesis
- Middle voice
- Passive voice
In a transformation from an active-voice clause to an equivalent passive-voice construction, what happens to the subject and the direct object?
In a transformation from an active-voice clause to an equivalent passive-voice construction, what happens to the subject and the direct object?
- The subject is demoted to an adjunct
- The direct object gets promoted to subject
- The subject and the direct object remain the same
- The subject and the direct object switch grammatical roles (correct)
Which voice is the most commonly used in many languages?
Which voice is the most commonly used in many languages?
Which voice is employed when the subject undergoes an action or has its state changed?
Which voice is employed when the subject undergoes an action or has its state changed?
Which voice demotes the object of transitive verbs and promotes the actor to an intransitive subject?
Which voice demotes the object of transitive verbs and promotes the actor to an intransitive subject?
Which voice is used for material processes where the subject is both the actor and the medium?
Which voice is used for material processes where the subject is both the actor and the medium?
Which of the following is true about the middle voice in English?
Which of the following is true about the middle voice in English?
What is the passival in English?
What is the passival in English?
Which of the following is true about deponent verbs in Latin?
Which of the following is true about deponent verbs in Latin?
What are the five voices in Classical Mongolian?
What are the five voices in Classical Mongolian?
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