Monday, 23 April 2012

The Passive: General

Passive voice နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အေျခခံအသံုးအႏွဳန္းေတြကိုသိၾကျပီးသားျဖစ္မွာပါ။ ပံုေသနည္းေလးကို
မွတ္မွိလြယ္ေအာင္ ရိုးရိုးရွင္းရွင္းစာေၾကာင္းေတြနဲ႕ ေလ့လာနိဳင္ပါတယ္။


Present simple:                        am/are/is + past participle                                          
                                               e.g.The office is closed.

Present continuous:                 am/are/is +being + past participle    
                                              e.g.The office is being closed at the moment.

Past simple:                             was/were + past participle                                       
                                              e.g.The office was closed yesterday afternoon.

Past continuous:                      was/were + being + past participle                            
                                             e.g.The office was being closed last week.

Present perfect simple:            have/has + been + past participle                              
                                             e.g.The office has been closed just now.

Past perfect simple:                 had + been + past participle                                       
                                             e.g. The office had been closed for two weeks.

Future:                                     will/would/shall/should/+ be + past participle                                                e.g. The office will be closed tomorrow.

Compare the active and passive sentence:
Active: Someone has invited Sarah to the party.
Passive: Sarah has been invited to the party.


Uses of the passive:
Passive ကိုသံုးေသာ အေျခအေနမ်ား 
=>When we want to highlight the object; ကံ(ျပဳျခင္းခံရသူ)ကို ေပၚလြင္ေစခ်င္ေသာအခါသံုးသည္။
Millions of trees are destroyed by pollution every year.(Highlighting millions of trees)
သန္းေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာ သစ္ပင္မ်ားပ်က္စီးရတာကို ေပၚလြင္ေစခ်င္တာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

=>When we do not know who or what does something; ဘယ္သူ၊ဘယ္အရာက ျပဳမွန္းမသိရတဲ့အခါ
My car was stolen last night. (I do not know who stole the car.)
ကားကို ဘယ္သူခိုးမွန္း မသိရလို႔ပါ။

=>When we are not interested in who or what does something; ဘယ္သူ၊ဘယ္အရာျပဳလုပ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို စိတ္၀င္မွဳမရွိတဲ့အခါမ်ိဳးမွာကံ(ျပဳျခင္းခံရသူ)ကို စာေၾကာင္းေရွ႕မွာထားျပီးသံုးတတ္ပါတယ္။
Sarah has been invited to the party. (We are not interested in who has invited Sarah)
ဘယ္သူကSarah ကို ဖိတ္တယ္ဆိုတာ စိတ္မ၀င္စားပါဘူး။

=>When we do not want to say who or what does something, and when the subject is not important to mention; ဘယ္သူ၊ဘယ္အရာက ျပဳလုပ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို မေဖာ္ျပလိုတဲ့အခါ(သို႔မဟုတ္) ေဖာ္ျပရေလာက္တဲ့ထိ အေရးမၾကီး တဲ့အခါမ်ိဳးမွာလည္း Passiveကိုသံုးပါတယ္။
The house is being painted at the moment. (not necessary and not important to say who are painting)
ဘယ္သူေဆးသုတ္တယ္ဆိုတာကို ေဖာ္ျပဖို႔အေရးမၾကီးပါဘူး။


Task: Kindly write 5-10 sentences using Passive.Thanks 
စိတ္၀င္စားရင္ Passive စာေၾကာင္း ငါးေၾကာင္းကေန ဆယ္ေၾကာင္းေလာက္ ေရးၾကည့္ေစခ်င္ပါတယ္။
ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါတယ္။

By Nant Thin Thin Hmwe
Myanmar Network

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