Tham khảo tài liệu 'longman grammar of spoken and written english part 37', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Active and passive voice 481 Verbs common with the get passive CORPUS FINDINGS 2 The get passive is generally rare and restricted primarily to conversation . Only a few verbs are common with the get passive even in conversation. Over 20 occurrences per million words get married Over five occurrences per million words get hit involved left stuck. DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS It is interesting to note that most of the verbs that are moderately common with get passives have negative connotations conveying that the action of the verb is difficult or to the disadvantage of the subject. These verbs include hit left stuck and sometimes involved. Most of the verbs commonly occurring in the get passive in conversation like many in the be passive are used as stative passives. Thus most of these constructions cannot take an agent specified in a by-phrase. However use of the get-passive conveys a more dynamic sense than the be-passive. That is the be passive often simply describes a state while the get-passive describes the process of getting into the state with a resultant meaning similar to become. As we saw in the copula get in this use is also typical of conversation while the written registers especially academic prose would use become instead. Be passive I was married for a couple of years in the seventies conv They weren t involved for that long conv You re gonna be left alone to get on with your job. conv You wouldn t be stuck at home conv Get passive She got married when she was eighteen conv And then we start to get involved in local society conv It s about these people who got left behind in Vietnam conv My head got stuck up there conv Verbs uncommon in the passive CORPUS FINDINGS 2 There are many transitive verbs and single-object prepositional verbs Pattern 1 that very rarely occur in the passive voice. The following verbs occur in the passive voice less than 2 of the time single word transitive verbs agree climb dare exclaim guess hate .
