Professional paper
STYLISTIC DIFFERENCE IN THE USE OF PASSIVE VOICE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Ivana Bratić
orcid.org/0009-0003-0024-8129
; Veleučilište u Šibeniku, Šibenik, Hrvatska
Abstract
In this article the passive voice, its use and stylistic diff erence it makes within a sentence have been observed an explained. Passive voice is very often used in the English language. It denotes a situation in which the subject suff ers the action expressed by its verb. A passive
sentence may be formed only with transitive verbs, those with which the action moves from a subject to an object. The meaning in the passive sentence does not change in relation to the active sentence, but what changes is the style because the object of an action gets situated in the fi rst place in the sentence; the emphasis is placed on the object and not on the subject or the doer of an action. Such a phenomenon is common in the language of law, informative writing or with the instructions in the use of technical means because they all put the emphasis on the object and not on the subject of an action that are either known from the context, or implied.
Keywords
passive; voice; verb phrase; clause; doer; suff erer
Hrčak ID:
169310
URI
Publication date:
25.11.2016.
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