Passive Voice Quiz
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What is the role of the subject in a passive voice construction?

  • Is indicated by some adjunct of the clause
  • Expresses the agent of the action
  • Is always omitted
  • Expresses the theme or patient of the main verb (correct)

    • In a passive voice construction, what does the subject denote?

  • The object of the verb
  • The theme of the main verb
  • The agent of the action
  • The patient rather than the agent of the action (correct)

    • What does a passive-voice construction syntactically do to the sense of a verb?

  • Does not affect valence
  • Changes the tense
  • Increases valence
  • Decreases valence (correct)

    • What does having both an active and a passive voice in a language allow for?

    <p>Greater flexibility in sentence construction</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the adversative passive construction used to indicate?

    <p>Adversative affect</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In Japanese, what does the adversative passive (indirect passive) indicate?

    <p>Adversative affect</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the morpheme -cir- used in the Yup'ik language to indicate in a passive sentence?

    <p>Adversative meaning</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In some languages, what is the difference between dynamic and stative passives?

    <p>Different grammatical functions and meanings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the auxiliary verb 'sein' mark in German?

    <p>Static passive</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do some linguists consider the second type of passive in English to be?

    <p>Stative passive</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the indirect or adversative passive construction's form in comparison to the direct passive?

    <p>Same form</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In which case is the noun usually placed when an agent is included in a passive sentence with the -cir passive in Yup'ik?

    <p>Allative (oblique) case</p> Signup and view all the answers

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