• 2022-06-14
    中国大学MOOC: English is inclined to use more syntactic passive and less notional passive.
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      Why do we have a wide use of passive voice in academic English? 

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      1. Entertainment tends to be more or less passive, you get entertained, while hobbies are more active, you do hobbies.

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      中国大学MOOC: The passive voice is used to ________

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      Actually, the passive voice is more commonly used in English than in Chinese, especially in the writing of science and technology.

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      There are two forms of passive: be-passive and ____ -passive. The different is that "be"can be used as operator in a negative statement or in a question, but "___".