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STYLISTIC DIFFERENCE IN THE USE OF PASSIVE VOICE IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Ivana Bratić orcid id orcid.org/0009-0003-0024-8129 ; Veleučilište u Šibeniku, Šibenik, Hrvatska


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str. 141-147

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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.

Ključne riječi

passive; voice; verb phrase; clause; doer; suff erer

Hrčak ID:

169310

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/169310

Datum izdavanja:

25.11.2016.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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