内容正文:
被动语态
【概念引入】
一、含有被动语态的名言欣赏
Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
衡量生命的尺度是思想和行动,而不是时间长短。
Men are known by his companions.
观其友而知其人。
Rome was not built in a day.
罗马不是一天建成的。
A friend without fault will never be found.
没有缺点的朋友永不可得。
二、被动语态的概念
英语的语态是通过动词形式的变化表现出来的。英语中有两种语态:主动语态和被动语态。
主动语态表示主语是动作的执行者。
Many people speak Chinese. 许多人说汉语。
谓语speak的动作是由主语many people来执行的。
被动语态表示主语是动作的承受者,即行为动作的对象。
Chinese is spoken by many people. 汉语被许多人说。
主语Chinese是动词speak的承受者。
【用法讲解】
一、被动语态结构
一般现在时:am / is / are +及物动词的过去分词
You are wanted on the phone. 有你的电话。
一般过去时:was / were +及物动词的过去分词
China was liberated in 1949. 1949年中国解放。
一般将来时:will / shall be +及物动词的过去分词
The problem will be discussed tomorrow.
明天将对这个问题进行讨论。
现在完成时:have / has been +及物动词的过去分词
Not a book in the library has been taken away. 图书馆里没有一本书被人拿走。
现在进行时:am / is / are being +及物动词的过去分词
My bike is being repaired. 我的自行车正在修理。
过去完成时:had been +及物动词的过去分词
The book had been borrowed when I got to the library.
我到了图书馆时,那本书已经借出去了。
二、主动语态与被动语态的转换
1)把主动语态的宾语变为被动语态的主语。
2)把谓语变为被动结构(be+过去分词)
注意:根据被动语态句子里的主语的人称和数,以及原来主动语态句子中动词的时态来决定be的形式。
3)把主动语态中的主语放在介词by之后作宾语,将主格改为宾格。
All the people laughed at him. 所有人都嘲笑他。
→He was laughed at by all people.
They make the bikes in the factory. 他们在那家工厂制造自行车。
→ The bikes are made by them in the factory.
He cut down a tree. 他砍倒了一棵树。
→ A tree was cut down by him.
4)含有情态动词的被动语态
含有情态动词的主动句变成被动句时,由“情态动词+be+过去分词”构成。
Little Tom can work out this maths problem easily. 小汤姆能容易地做出这道数学题。
→ This maths problem can be easily work out by little Tom.
They should do it at once. 他们应该立刻做那件事。
→It should be done at once.
5) 含有双宾语的主动语态变为被动语态
主动语态的双宾语句式: 主语+谓语动词+间接宾语+直接宾语+其他
被动语态的双宾语句式: 间接宾语+be+过去分词+直接宾语+其他
或:直接宾语+be +过去分词+介词(for / to)+间接宾语+其他
My father gave me a new book on my birthday.
我的父亲在我生日那天给我一本新书。
→ I was given a new book on my birthday (by my father).
→ A new book was given to me on my birthday (by my father).
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