Active Voice Verbs & Noun Cases

 

Active Voice Verbs

            (1) Transitive Verbs (take a direct object)

                        E.g., “Joe threw a ball.”  (The ball receives the action of the verb.)

            (2) Intransitive Verbs (do NOT take a direct object)

                        E.g., “Jane slept.”

            (3) Equative Verbs (equate the subject & predicate)

                        E.g., “Dr. Williams is a feminist.”

 

Noun Cases

          (1) Nominative Case (Case for subject of all verbs & predicate of equative verbs)

                        E.g., “Susan studied Greek.”
                        E.g., “Dale is a genius.”

            (2) Genitive Case (Case for possession & object of some prepositions)

                        E.g., “That is his book.”

                        E.g., “Harry Potter lives under the staircase.”

            (3) Dative Case (Case for indirect object & object of some prepositions)

                        E.g., “He gave Alicia a kiss.”
                        E.g., “Jesus walked to Galilee.”

            (4) Accusative Case (Case for direct object & object of some prepositions)

                        E.g., “Jesus healed a blind man.”

                        E.g., “Jesus walked along the sea.”

Middle Voice Verbs
            * The subject of the sentence both performs and receives the action of the verb.

            * The subject and direct object are the same person or thing, but the verb is not equative.

            E.g., “Ben dressed himself.”

 

Passive Voice Verbs

            * The subject receives the action of the verb and the actor of the verb is either not                                
                      identified or is identified in a prepositional phrase (“by ….”).

            E.g., “The ball was thrown.”

            E.g., “The ball was thrown by Shannon.”

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