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Synopsis of Unit 18, Modals, phrasal verbs and passive voice.
This unit dragged my attention a bit more from the other units for the reason that phrasal verbs and modals have small tricks that you should pay attention to.
I learned; that modals differentiate from each other in many usage forms;
Modal Verbs: Can, could, must, should, be able to, ought to, may, might, shall, need to, have to, would, have got to.
Some of the modal verbs listed above are used to express politeness, some express certainty, some others are used to indicate obligation, uncertainty and suggestions.
I came across some rules regarding the modal verbs;
1. Use as it is, the modals do not change when tenses change in past, future and present
2. Use base form after model – don’t use ‘to’ before the verb and after the model.
3. Use only ‘not’ after modals and NEVER use: don’t doesn’t aren’t isn’t wasn’t won’t (and exception is using ‘have to’)
Passive and active voice. The action of the subject upon the object and vice versa.
Important thing to emphasize upon passive voice development is that only transitive verbs such as: sell take buy write etc- are used to create passive voice.
Passive and active voice have the same meaning (by a given example) but the difference is that the focus is different. In the active voice the focus is on the agent meanwhile in the passive voice the focus stands in the subject.
Phrasal verbs,
Phrasal verbs in English are dissected in:
1. Intransitive (can exist without a following object)
2. Transitive separable (need an object to follow for a complete meaning)
3. Transitive inseparable (where the object phrase or object pronoun both come after the particle)
It is important, that the teacher teaches the phrasal verbs as vocabulary items because they are hard to be grasped by students sometimes.
