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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Passive Voice

I'm learning for a linguistic test on "the English verb" on monday.

My professor gave a paper to learn with but I really don't the chapter about the Active and Passive voice.

My question is what are central, semi and pseudo passiv?

Pleas help me to understand this topic.
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Dear friend, central passives have a direct active-passive relation, as in: This well was built by his grandfather. ~ His grandfather built this well. semi-passives have both verbal and adjectival properties: He was interested in mechanics.

— Andriy Lapin

  • Dear friend, central passives have a direct active-passive relation, as in: This well was built by his grandfather.
  • ~ His grandfather built this well.
  • semi-passives have both verbal and adjectival properties: He was interested in mechanics.
  • ~ Mechanics interested him.
  • <verbal in having an active form> ~ He was quite interested in mechanics < adjectival - with quite > pseudo-passives have neither an active counterpart nor any agent: The world is getting more polluted and mechanized .
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Dear friend,

central passives have a direct active-passive relation, as in:

This well was built by his grandfather. ~ His grandfather built this well.

semi-passives have both verbal and adjectival properties:

He was interested in mechanics. ~ Mechanics interested him.<verbal in having an active form>
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