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What is the role of the subject in a passive voice construction?
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?
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?
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?
What does having both an active and a passive voice in a language allow for?
What is the adversative passive construction used to indicate?
What is the adversative passive construction used to indicate?
In Japanese, what does the adversative passive (indirect passive) indicate?
In Japanese, what does the adversative passive (indirect passive) indicate?
What is the morpheme -cir- used in the Yup'ik language to indicate in a passive sentence?
What is the morpheme -cir- used in the Yup'ik language to indicate in a passive sentence?
In some languages, what is the difference between dynamic and stative passives?
In some languages, what is the difference between dynamic and stative passives?
What does the auxiliary verb 'sein' mark in German?
What does the auxiliary verb 'sein' mark in German?
What do some linguists consider the second type of passive in English to be?
What do some linguists consider the second type of passive in English to be?
What is the indirect or adversative passive construction's form in comparison to the direct passive?
What is the indirect or adversative passive construction's form in comparison to the direct passive?
In which case is the noun usually placed when an agent is included in a passive sentence with the -cir passive in Yup'ik?
In which case is the noun usually placed when an agent is included in a passive sentence with the -cir passive in Yup'ik?
