Gerund Noun Phrases in Passive Voice 有被動語態的動名詞組：“Being Chosen for a Flight Mission” 👩🏻‍🚀🪐

In this video, we will look at a gerund noun phrase in passive voice from a real-life example: Being chosen for a flight mission is not easy. 👩🏻‍🚀 When students learn about “voice,” they often only learn about it in the context of finite verb forms, but, actually, any verb form, including non-finite forms like gerunds, can be passive. Let’s look at what we need to watch out for together. 在這段影片中，我們將透過一個真實例子來探討顯示「被動語態（passive voice）」的動名詞組（gerund noun phrase）： Being chosen for a flight mission is not easy. 👩🏻‍🚀 當學生學習「語態」時，通常只是學習有被動語態的限定動詞字形，但其實任何動詞變出的字形，包括像動名詞這樣的「非限定」字形，也可以有被動語態的。 我們一起來看看需要注意甚麼。 ______________________________ 小練習： 請將以下動詞組改寫成動名詞組並完成句子。 （*注意配合正確的語態） “Swim in the ocean” (在海中游泳) ________________________________ energizes me. 在海洋中游泳使我充满活力。 “criticize” (批評) ________________________________ does not feel good. 被批評的感覺並不好 ______________________________ Footnote 註釋： Note that another non-finite verb form in English, the “present participle” form, also has the ending “-ing.” It might be confusing because present participles are NOT gerunds -- they do not function as nouns in a clause but rather as modifiers. For example: Eating ice-cream makes me happy. 吃冰淇淋讓我感到快樂。 The form “eating” in the phrase “eating ice-cream” is a gerund. The phrase “eating ice-cream” is a gerund phrase. It is functioning as a noun in the clause. It is the subject of this clause. Eating ice-cream, I feel happy. 吃著冰淇淋，我感到快樂。 In this sentence, the identical phrase “eating ice-cream” is not a gerund phrase but rather a present participle phrase. It acts as an adverbial modifier to “I feel happy.” It expresses the meaning that the subject “I,” while doing the action of “eating ice-cream” in the background, “feel happy.” The phrase “eating ice-cream” modifies the “background conditions” for the main action in the clause, “I feel happy.” It doesn’t act as a noun. We can explore this topic in another video. 英文中另一種非限定動詞的字形 – 「present participle」字形，同樣有「-ing」字尾。這可能會造成混淆，因為「present participle」並不是動名詞，它們是修飾語，而是名詞。 例如： Eating ice-cream makes me happy. 吃冰淇淋讓我感到快樂。 「Eating ice-cream」中的「eating」是動名詞（gerund）的字形，「eating ice-cream」是動名詞組。它的功能是名詞，擔當這個子句的主語。 Eating ice-cream, I feel happy. 吃著冰淇淋，我感到快樂。 此句也有相同的詞組「eating ice-cream」，但它不是動名詞組，而是「present participle」。它是修飾子句「I feel happy」的副詞修飾語，表達「在做吃雪糕的動作時，我會感到開心」。 它所表達的是，主語「I」在進行「eating ice-cream」的這個情境下，「feel happy」。「Eating ice-cream」為子句中的主要動作「I feel happy」去修飾它的背景資訊。它的角色並非名詞。 我們可以在另一段影片中再探討一下這個主題。 Full blog post: https://www.mscharlotteacademy.blog/2...