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Passives with an agent. We use the preposition by to introduce the doer or the agent of the action. We use this structure when the agent is important: Mr Ward has been arrested by the FBI. The community was destroyed by a flood in 1862.
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- Voice Change of Questions
- Voice Change of Imperative Sentence
- Voice Change of Modal Auxiliaries
- Voice Change of Infinitives
- Different Preposition in Place of ‘by’
- Miscellaneous Voice Change Examples
Do you see the bird? – Is the bird seen by you?Did you finish your task? – Was your task finished by you?Have you heard it before? – Has it been heard by before?Who teaches you English? – By whom are you taught English?Shut the door. – Let the door be shut.Keep the book on the table. – Let the book be kept on the table.Obey your seniors. – Seniors should be obeyed.Do not hate the poor. – The poor should not be hated.He can do this. – This can be done by him.We should help her. – She should be helped by us.I have some work to do. – I have some work to be done.I am going to pack the bag. – The bag is going to be packedby me.His manner shocked me. – I was shocked athis manner.I know that. – That is known tohim.Rahul married Ritu. – Ritu was married toRahul.Tolstoy interests me. – I am interested inTolstoy.Honey tastes sweet. – Honey is sweet when it is tasted. (quasi-passive voice)We know that Columbus discovered America. – It is known to us that America was discovered by Columbus. (complex sentence)He laughed at the idea. – The idea was laughed atby him. (group verb)He killed himself. – He was killed by himself. (reflexive object)- Jayanta Kumar Maity
The earliest known use of the verb preponder is in the early 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for preponder is from 1614, in the writing of John Norden, cartographer. preponder is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pre- prefix, ponder v. See etymology.
In a passive-voice sentence, the doer of the action (if named) appears in a prepositional phrase beginning with by. Subject (Receiver of action) passive verb preposition by object of prep.
Here is a list of thematic roles that were introduced in the Syntax chapter. Agent: Agents are animate actors who do things on purpose. Causer: Usually inanimate (not alive), cause things to happen but without acting on purpose. Theme: The participant affected by the event, may be changed by the event.
When a grammatical pattern can be extended in predictable manners, it is called productivity. Some derivational morphemes are productive (like -ish) and others are not (like -ness), as shown in Table 2. While -ish can be used with all six stems, -ness can only be used with examples (a) to (c).
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The earliest known use of the noun preponderance is in the late 1600s. OED's earliest evidence for preponderance is from 1681, in the writing of Nehemiah Grew, botanist and physician. preponderance is formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: preponderant adj., ‑ance suffix.
