- Sept 20, 2019
- By XIEC
The Passive: Forming The Passive
In passive sentences the subject of the sentence is the receiver of the action.
read moreThe verb to be is the fundamental verb used to indicate the existence of an entity (person, object, abstraction) or to relate an entity to its qualities or characteristics. In linguistics, it is sometimes known as a copula.
Unlike transitive verbs, it does not take a direct object, but a complement, since the subject and complement of the verb to be relate to the same entity. The complement of to be can be a noun, a noun group, an adjective, or a prepositional phrase.
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In passive sentences the subject of the sentence is the receiver of the action.
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