Second, the passive construction (‘has been discussed’) not only forces the use of the auxiliary verb ‘to be’, but also reduces energy by removing the agent of the action from the sentence. As Richard Lanham pointed out, you can’t tell ‘who’s kicking who?’ (sic) in a sentence in the passive voice [1]. Accordingly, in the example above you can’t tell who is doing the ‘discussing’. Traditionally,...

In this paper, passive optical network and its techniques have been reviewed. Due to the property of high bandwidth and energy saving, Passive optical network can be a better solution for the networks accessed in future. Traffic pattern has evolved to video and image based services from voice and text oriented services in the access networks. For the support of symmetric, high-speed and perfect...

We present a method for automatically acquiring knowledge for case alternation between the passive and active voices in Japanese. By leveraging several linguistic constraints on alternation patterns and lexical case frames obtained from a large Web corpus, our method aligns a case frame in the passive voice to a corresponding case frame in the active voice and finds an alignment between their c...

‘Languages are differently equipped to express different realworld relations, and they certainly do not express all aspects of meaning with equal ease” (Ivir, 1981:56). This paper is a case study that seeks to examine this statement through exploring the equivalence of passive voice in translation of English into Greek. The source text is ‘9/11’ by Chomsky, (2001) and its Greek translation by M...

Most of the students commit errors in their writing. This research aimed to analyse committed by Eighth-grade changing active voice narration into passive narration. The study assesses both primary reasons for and frequency at which they occur. Sixty from two different Govt. schools were selected conduct this using convenient random sampling. test was used as a data collection tool. descriptive...