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  • 23 - The 被 bèi construction

  • from Unit IV - Special sentences
  • Yongping Zhu, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Chu-Ren Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • Book:
    A Student Grammar of Chinese
    Published online:
    27 April 2023
    Print publication:
    11 May 2023, pp 327-339

  • Summary

    This chapter introduces the passive 被 bèi construction by outlining the similarities and differences between the bèi construction and the bǎ construction. The grammatical features of the bèi construction are explained, with an emphasis on the difference between typical passive sentences in other languages. Several other forms of passive sentences in Chinese are also provided.

  • 7 - Argument Structure

  • Tania Ionin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Silvina Montrul, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Book:
    Second Language Acquisition
    Published online:
    03 February 2023
    Print publication:
    26 January 2023, pp 194-231

  • Summary

    Chapter 7 is about transitive and intransitive verbs and the syntactic structures they can appear in. Transitive verbs can appear in the passive voice while intransitive verbs are ungrammatical in passive sentences. There are different types of passive structures in Japanese and Korean, and learners of English have difficulty identifying which verbs can be passivized in English. Intransitive verbs are divided into two classes according to their meaning: Agentive verbs are unergative verbs, and non-agentive verbs are unaccusative verbs. In Spanish, some unaccusative verbs appear with the reflexive pronoun se. This chapter presents the learnability problem that different types of transtive and intransitive verbs present for second language learners of English and of Spanish and discusses intervention research conducted in this area. The first part focuses on the passive voice. The second part is about unaccusative verbs, which second language learners sometimes erroneously use in the passive voice.

  • Readability of internet-based patient information for radiotherapy patients

  • David Flinton, Manrita K. Singh, Krupesh Haria
  • Journal:
    Journal of Radiotherapy in Practice / Volume 17 / Issue 2 / June 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    21 January 2018, pp. 142-150
  • Background

    Information is key to patient informed choice and the internet is currently a major source of health information for adults in the UK. In order for the users to make use of the information it must be presented in a way that the user can understand. This depends on a number of factors one being that the document is written at the right level to be understood by the reader, readability.

    Aim

    The aim of this study was to assess the readability of radiotherapy-related documents on the internet and compare their levels to published norms.

    Method

    An internet search was undertaken using Google, to identify UK-based literature. Once identified documents were downloaded into Word and cleaned of punctuation other than that at the end of the sentence, documents were then analysed by the software package Readability Studio.

    Results and conclusions

    Documents tended to be written at too high a reading level, but the reading level had improved from a similar study conducted in 2006. The level of readability appears to show a relationship to the use of passive voice, which was very variable in the sample collected and reduction in the use of passive voice could help with the readability of the information.