中国大学MOOC: English is inclined to use more syntactic passive and less notional passive.
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- English is inclined to use more syntactic passive and less notional passive. A: 正确 B: 错误
- 3. "Chinese tends to use less notional passive which usually contains the word “被”, and uses more syntactic passive, that is, using active construction to express passive meaning.” () 这个说法是对的还是错的
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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 "___".