12 Questions
What is the role of the subject in a passive voice construction?
Expresses the theme or patient of the main verb
In a passive voice construction, what does the subject denote?
The patient rather than the agent of the action
What does a passive-voice construction syntactically do to the sense of a verb?
Decreases valence
What does having both an active and a passive voice in a language allow for?
Greater flexibility in sentence construction
What is the adversative passive construction used to indicate?
Adversative affect
In Japanese, what does the adversative passive (indirect passive) indicate?
Adversative affect
What is the morpheme -cir- used in the Yup'ik language to indicate in a passive sentence?
Adversative meaning
In some languages, what is the difference between dynamic and stative passives?
Different grammatical functions and meanings
What does the auxiliary verb 'sein' mark in German?
Static passive
What do some linguists consider the second type of passive in English to be?
Stative passive
What is the indirect or adversative passive construction's form in comparison to the direct passive?
Same form
In which case is the noun usually placed when an agent is included in a passive sentence with the -cir passive in Yup'ik?
Allative (oblique) case
Test your understanding of passive voice with this quiz. Identify and use passive voice constructions, and learn how they differ from active voice.
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