An Overview of the Passive Voice in English

Authors

Mayuree Durongbhan

Publication Date

1980-01-01

Abstract

Most reference grammars--traditional or transformational-have often treated passive sentences as being para-phrasable, or synonymous, or equivalent to their active counterparts. However, as Celce Murcia* and Larsen-Freeman(1977) point out, there are some differences, not only grammatically, but also semantically, that exist between the active and the passive voice. First of all, passive and active sentences may sometimes differ in meaning—especially when they contain numerals or quantifiers—e.g. the active and passive sentences in the following two pairs are not completely synonymous.

DOI

10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.10.2.6

First Page

54

Last Page

56

Recommended Citation

Durongbhan, Mayuree (1980) "An Overview of the Passive Voice in English," PASAA: Vol. 10: Iss. 2, Article 6.
DOI: 10.58837/CHULA.PASAA.10.2.6
Available at: https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/pasaa/vol10/iss2/6