The voice

I. Comment on the use of Non-Passive verbs in groups I-IV. Comment on the use of the Passive Voice forms in Group VI. Translate the examples and compare the use of the Voice forms in Russian and English. Comment on the use of the form ‘be + Participle II’. In which sentences it is a passive voice form:

I. "You think I'm talking a lot of nonsense but I know you are living a lot of nonsense. 2. I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. 3. Geor­gette smiled that wonderful smile. 4. This gang being respon­sible for riot in Lilmouth on 4th when four buses burnt and private cars wrecked.

II. 1. It says I shall have the money in this contract.2. Dada drank and money always owed. 3. She sat beside Lyon identifyingwith the cast rather than the audience. 4. The place was filling up. 5. That year Paris was crawling with Americans. 6. The rest doesn't translate very well. 7. Do you know my picture is playing in London? 8. "Is there jazz tak­ing place in this city tonight?" "Yeah, I reckon so..." "Take me where it's being played."

III. 1. She had taken the flat four weeks ago. The house held six flats. 2. As she told the story, it seemed to F. Jasmine that Berenice resembled a strange queen. 3. I have enough tobacco to last me four days. 4. How many days has February? 5. The atlas contains forty maps. 6. In them (= reasons) is contained the seed of one of the many tragedies that seemed
to find in Isadora the light of their bitter inspiration.

IV. 1. There was a mirror above the telephone table and in it he saw himself. 2. He looked round the attic, telling him­self that he was seeing it for the last time. 3. Still fuming, Thurston allowed himself to be led into the dining-room. 4. He parked himself in the chair opposite my desk. 5. But I’m all: right this morning because I can shut myself off by thinking about Ingrid. 6. Haldane arose at seven Sunday morning 'and took almost an hour to shave twice, trim his nails and toenails, shower, soap, rinse, resoap, rerinse, dry himself, splash his face with aftershave lotion and dry his hands on his bare chest.

V. 1. The wedding! What could have been more singular? I had asked no questions of course; but then on the other hand / had been asked none. 2. Roger failed to understand his drift. Somebody else was introduced and introduced somebody else. 3. They saw but were not seen, as if safe behind a one-way mir­ror. 4. A terrible joke had been played upon him, and he was the one who had played it.

VI. 1. (a) She looked displeased and told me she had been sent to fetch in Rozanna who was late for dinner, (b) He ate half of what he had been sent, (c) I'd been sent for already. 2. Caroline was also still being talked about. 3. I'll bet Dunbar is that evil fellow who really does all those nasty things you're always being blamed for. 4. The manager was again appealed to and at his wits' end sent for the sheriff. 5. I could feel we were being looked at. 6. "I am being looked after." The Connor girls were Protestants, but well thought of. The second course (version) was decided on.

VII. 1. In the spring of 1925 Hemingway was approached by two American publishers. 2. I say Bell was a brave and good man to go on at all after he'd been threatened and after he found he couldn't find any protection. 3. "You'// be paid all right and paid well too. 4. I was shown it. 5. We were kept busy most of the time. 6. At Cambridge he had won his chess blue and was esteemed the best whist player of his-time. He blushed no longer with embarrassment but in anger;
he had walked here in good faith and was being made a fool. I'm not prepared to have people think that I'm being made a fool of.

VIII. 1. She began to say again I must not mind the let­ters. They had been written before that day of the accident. 2. She looked at him reading the little book whose yellowish pages she knew, without knowing what was written on them. It was small, it was closely printed. 3. Old Aunt Latter wouldn't give her a candle at night because she'd been spoilt.... And Nina agreed with her. She knew she was spoilt. 4. But just when I thought I was finished there was a silence and I heard a voice I knew. 5. But within a quarter of an hour he was perfectly dressed, in every detail, and at my service. 6. Place was occupied by lady volunteer in charge, Miss Slocomb. 7. Mayor goes out to address crowd and is received by noise like fourteen lunatic asylums...8. Head Office is worried. 9. You could see she was pretty near worried to death. 10. I hope you are not being troubled by this rubbish. 11. When
the business was done and the notes packed into their envelopes and locked away in Mr. Webster’s bag, the Baron said... 12. When I was asked about it I was content to smile and shrug
my shoulders.

II. Comment on the use of the verb forms. Say whether the verb form in italics is a verbal predicate expressed by a Passive verb or a free syntactical combination:

А. 1. Two globeshaped china dishes were brought in by a page. 2. They are made of rare sapphires, which were brought out of India a thousand years ago. 3. One of them was from Lord Henry, and had been brought by hand that morning. 4. When Dorian had finished the letter, he felt that he had been forgiven. 5. As he was sitting at breakfast next morning, Basil Hallward was shown into the room. 6. A black screen was drawn across his mirror of inner vision, and fancy lay in a darkened sickroom where entered no ray of light. 7. "While the drinks were being prepared, he observed his hostess more closely. 8. All over the district people were dining and sup­ping; working-men were gardening after the labours of the day, children were being put to bed, young people were wan­dering through the lanes love-making, students sat over their books. 9. So they were called in and Pa Hartly made a little speech founded on the style of old General Shooter. 10. But she was beaten by the economic factor — by the economic fac­tor and the child. 11. Put ashes on your head because Cor­delia was strangled. 12. The ordinary traffic had been stopped, I believe, in order to allow of the passage of troops and guns to Chertsey. 13. After he became a full-blown solicitor, at the age of twenty-four, a family council was held. 14. I failed to find Lord Hilton at his house, but / was told he was expected from London by the six o'clock train from Waterloo. 15. The girl, I am told, is beautiful. 16. A week before his wedding he was allowed a banking account for the first time of his life. Papa paid in £ 200, and, by arrangement with George Augustus, dear Mamma was made to believe it was £ 20.He told me that during the night the Martians had been surrounded by troops and that guns were expected. 19. It was a few minutes past nine that night when these three sentinels were joined by four other Martians, each carrying a thick black tube. 20. No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watch­ ed keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied.

B. I. "I am waited for in Egypt," said the swallow. 2. We all know how you are run after in London. 3. At ten the serv­ants were fold to call Sir Pitt and the household to prayers. 4. Dobbin took from this desk the letter which he had been charged by Mr. Osborne to deliver to his son. 5. Ghopper had been instructed to make out an account of all sums paid to Captain Osborne within the last three years. 6. Not a word had been spoken, and not a word was spoken for a long time. 7. "That means," he said after a long look at his wife, "that means she is in love."— "No, but she is loved," was the smiling rejoinder. 8. And I can assure you that the wording of this letter made it quite apparent that / had been chosen to replace Denny. 9. Then he was told that his mamma was an orphan and quite alone in the world when his papa had married her. 10. Rawdon was denied the door by Mr. Bowls. 11. A watch was glanced at and there arose cries of surprise at the after­noon's flight. 12. Accordingly, about three in the afternoon of this same Monday, Clyde was sent for. 13. The wages of those worthy people were discharged with that punctuality which men frequently show who only owe in great sums.