Passive Constructions in Modern Standard English and Modern Standard Turkish: A Contrastive Analysis

Abstract

The paper aims to describe the function of the passive voice in Modern Standard English and Modern Standard Turkish. Passivisation is an important grammatical process that occurs when a sentence's structure shifts from an active to a passive form by altering the verb form and making the direct object the passive sentence's subject. Both English and Turkish feature active and passive formulations, with the passive in both languages created by transitive and ditransitive verbs. The current paper will adopt a contrastive analysis to identify the variations and parallels in passivization between Modern English and Modern Standard Turkish. Moreover, the results of the current paper are helpful in the language teaching process.