PASSIVE SENTENCE STRUCTURE
CONSTRUCTION THAT DEPENDS ON AUXILIARIES : 3 sentence constructions involve auxiliary verbs: 1.Passive Sentence 2.Negative Sentence 3.Questions PASSIVE SENTENCE: 1.The choice of passive "be" affects the form of the sentence as a whole. 2.The object in an active sentence becomes the subject of the corresponding passive sentence 3.Active and passive sentence describe same state of affairs but they describe it differently i.e active sentence is more about doer and passive sentence is emphasized on the person or object receiving the action. 4.Use of adverbial ( by the doer......) which is optional, this PP will function as an adverbial, modifies VP ( lexical VP) and will be the sister of VP, used in sentence final. 5.Since converting an active sentence into passive counterparts involves shifting the object into subject position, it follows that only lexical verbs that take objects ( direct/ indirect) can figure in passive sentence. 6.Intensive verbs don't...