Mastering Verb Voices

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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?

  • 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?

  • 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?

<p>Active voice (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which voice is employed when the subject undergoes an action or has its state changed?

<p>Passive voice (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which voice demotes the object of transitive verbs and promotes the actor to an intransitive subject?

<p>Antipassive voice (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which voice is used for material processes where the subject is both the actor and the medium?

<p>Middle voice (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is true about the middle voice in English?

<p>The verb form in the middle voice in English can be reflexive or non-reflexive. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the passival in English?

<p>A distinct verb form used in the passive voice. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is true about deponent verbs in Latin?

<p>Deponent verbs in Latin are active in form and passive in meaning. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are the five voices in Classical Mongolian?

<p>Active, passive, causative, reciprocal, and cooperative. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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