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The fence is painted. — The fence is painted light green. — The fence is to be painted. — The fence has just been painted. The fact that the indefinite to this graduation of dynamism in passive constructions.
Conclusion
passive grammar semantics translation
The category of voice differs radically from all other hitherto considered categories from the point of view of its referential qualities. Indeed, all the previously described categories reflect various characteristics of processes, both direct and oblique, as certain facts of reality existing irrespective of the speakers perception. For instance, the verbal category of person expresses the personal relation of the process. The verbal number, together with person. The verbal primary time denotes the absolutive timing of the process, i.e. its timing in reference to the moment of speech. The category propect expresses the timing of the process from the point of view of its relation. But we cannot say the same about the category of voice.
As a matter of fact, the situation reflected by the passive construction does not differ in the least from the situation reflected by the active constructions — the nature of the process is preserved intact, the situational participants remain in their places in their unchanged quality. What is changed then, with the transition from the adjective appraisal of the situation by the speaker the plane of his presentation of it. It is clearly seen when comparing any pair of situation by the speaker, the plane of his presentation of it.
The property of the category of voice shows the its immediate connection with syntax, which finds expression in direct transformational relational between the active and passive constructions
The said fundamental meaningful difference between the two forms of the verb and the corresponding constructions that are built around them goes with all the concrete situational contexts. In particular, we find the object — experience featuring achieved by the passive in its typical uses in cases when the subject is unknown or is not to be mentioned for certain reasons, or when the attention of the speaker is centered on the action as such respectively.
Another act of terrorism has been committed in Argentina. Dinner was announced, and our conversation stopped.
All the functional distinctions of the passive both categorical and contextual connotative are sustained in its use with verbids.
For instance, in the following passive infinitive phrase the categorical object experience featuring is accompanied by the logical accent of the process characterizing the quality of its situational object. This event will never be forgotten.
The past participle of the objective verb is passive in meaning, and phrases built up it by display all the cited charateristics. E.g. Seen from the valley, the castle on the cliff presented a fantastic sight.