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Expressing Adversity.
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Masuko, Mayumi – Language Sciences, 1996
Discusses why Japanese students frequently passivize certain intransitive English verbs. It is suggested that students might make this error because they associate adversity with the passive construction and use passives whenever adversity is implied. Discussion of other expressions implying adversity and implications for both applied and…
Descriptors: Discourse Modes, English (Second Language), Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction