Let's move on, whose intention is to further expand our knowledge about the facts that guide the language, but not without first revisiting the text "voices of the verb”
Through the elucidations listed there, we found “behavioral” aspects, now adopted by the subject of the prayer. Thus, we have the active voice, in which the subject practices the action expressed by the verb; We have the passive voice, in which the subject receives, suffers the action performed by the verb, and, finally, the reflective voice, in which the subject is agent and patient simultaneously.
Aspects that have been remembered, let us analyze the subsequent statements:
Students read the book – active voice
The book was read by the students
read the books
Sticking to the first of them, we have that the verb read, with regard to predication (relationship established between the complement that precedes it), is classified as direct transitive. Simple, whoever reads, reads something.
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Therefore, analyzing the other utterances, we find that they are in the passive voice, and the second is demarcated by the voice passive analytic, and the third by the synthetic passive voice, whose main requirement is revealed by the fact that the verb appears accompanied by the pronoun if.
Thus, "the books were read".
We are faced with the passive particle, which is defined by the name that is given to the pronoun "if", once accompanying direct transitive verbs (read) with the term patient, which represents none other than the subject of the verb, therefore:
Books were read.
By Vânia Duarte
Graduated in Letters
Would you like to reference this text in a school or academic work? Look:
DUARTE, Vânia Maria do Nascimento. "Passivative particle"; Brazil School. Available in: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/gramatica/particula-apassivadora.htm. Accessed on June 27, 2021.
