3. What do we mean by the Voice of a verb?

4. TRUE or FALSE? In English there are 2 actual Voices. The Active & the Passive but there is also some kind of Middle Voice.

5. What are the important aspects of each Voice?

7. TRUE or FALSE? Active Voice: verb ‘be’ & the past participle of the main verb. Right answer: basic English Syntax (SVO) & normal formation/ use of the verb tenses

8. TRUE or FALSE? Passive Voice: be + past participle of main verb.

9. Name the 4 steps we follow to turn an AS into a PS.

10. TRUE or FALSE? Only transitive verbs can be made Passive.

11. TRUE or FALSE? All transitive verbs can be made Passive. Right answer: Some, like ‘have’, cannot.

12. TRUE or FALSE? No intransitive verb can be made Passive. Right answer: Some can if used as dependent (on a preposition).

13. TRUE or FALSE? All 12 of the Active Tenses can be made Passive. Right answer: All Simple Active Tenses can but only 2 Continuous.

14. TRUE or FALSE? We do not always use the Agent in the Passive. And when don’t we?

15. TRUE or FALSE? English Passive verbs do not always translate well into Greek.

16. TRUE or FALSE? With Double-object Verbs, we always transform from the person-object. Right answer: We prefer the person-object but we can transform from the thing- object, too.

17. TRUE or FALSE? We use the Auxiliary Passive form when a verb does not transform from its person- object.

18. What is a Special Case in the Passive?

19. What is the impersonal construction of the Special Passive Case for this? It was assumed that he had come from the north.

20. And the personal construction? He was assumed to have come from the north.

21. What is the Auxiliary Passive Form?

22. And what is the Causative Form of the verb?

23. How is the Causative Form used?

24. What are the other causal constructions of ‘have’ & ‘get’?

25. TRUE or FALSE? Questions are worthy of special attention in the English Passive. Why?

26. TRUE or FALSE? ‘Get’ can substitute for ‘be’ in informal usage in both the Passive Voice & the Causative Form.

27. TRUE or FALSE? The Passive Voice is more informal than the Active. Right answer: It’s the other way round.

28. TRUE or FALSE? To turn a PS into an AS, we use the same 4 steps as for an AS into a PS. Right answer: In reverse order.

30. TRUE or FALSE? The Middle Voice does not exist as a tense formation in English.

31. TRUE or FALSE? Verbs in English contain a ‘reflexive’ sense in themselves. Right answer: Some of them do.

32. TRUE or FALSE? Verbs in English form the Middle Voice by adding the Reflexive Pronouns. Right answer: Again, some of them do.

33. TRUE or FALSE? Some verbs in English change meaning if you add the ‘-self’ pronouns after them. Like, which?