In English, verbs can express an action in one of two voices. The active voice focuses on the agent: "John measured the temperature." (Here, the agent — John — is the grammatical subject of ...
This handout is available for download in PDF format. Active verbs are important components of any academic writing! Just as in other forms of writing, they work as engines, driving the action of your ...
The evidence differentiating ergative verbs from unaccusative ones is not very strong in English. Ergative verbs cannot take a resultative clause, but some unaccusative ones may: The ice melted into ...