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Differences Of Passive Voice In English Language

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During the acquisition of English, Vietnamese learner have to encounter many difficulties because of these two languages belong two different groups. One of the most difficult problems is passive voice. Take these sentences as example : “ The rice is cook” and “ Cơm chín rồi”. We can see that these two sentences have the same meaning but one in passive form and the other in active form. Thus, It makes learners confused about using passive form properly when translating because sometimes an active sentence in Vietnamese can be a passive sentence in English. As a teacher-to-be of English, a Vietnamese learner, I want to do this paper to help English learner clear about all the similarities and differences of passive voice in English and Vietnamese as well as avoiding making mistakes in translation these two languages the correct way to translate passive sentences from English to Vietnamese and vice versa. This paper has three main parts: description, comparison and implication. In the first part, there are some general concepts about passive voice in each language to give readers some certain basic knowledge . In the second one, a contrastive view in similarities and differences will point out the common mistakes of language learner when translating. The last part will be the implication of passive voice for teaching as well as learning English.
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Passive Voice in English
Voice has been defined in many grammar books and dictionaries which bring different

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