陷阱3 将连系动词误用于被动语态
英语中有些连系动词（如look, sound, smell, feel, taste等），虽然它们从汉语看来需要用被动语态，但它们总是用主动表式表示被动意义，因为连系动词为不及物动词，它们没有被动语态形式。如：
那只狗看起来很危险。
误：That dog is looked dangerous.
正：That dog looks dangerous.
你的想法听起来很好。
误：Your idea is sounded a good one.
正：Your idea sounds a good one.
陷阱4 根据汉语意思误用被动语态
因为不及物动词没有宾语，所以若将其用于被动语态则没有主语，故不能用于被动语态。但是值得注意的是，有些英语中的不及物动词，译成汉语时却可能是“及物”的，很容易出错，这类动词如：take place(发生)，happen(发生)，come about(发生)，break out(爆发)，appear(出现)，disappear(消失)，last(持续)等。如
在最近10年我的家乡发生了巨大的变化。
误：Great changes have been taken place in my home town in the past ten years.
正：Great changes have taken place in my home town in the past ten years.
类似地，动词happen也有类似用法。如：
事故什么时候发生的?
误：When was the accident happened?
正：When did the accident happen?(www.hxen.com)
【跟踪训练】
选择最佳答案填空：
1. I ________ to get there before seven tomorrow, so I’ll have to get up early.
A. told B. have told C. will tell D. was told
2. Don’t worry. All the children ________ by the nurses.
A. are well taken care of B. take good care of
C. are taken good care D. take good care
3. —Hi, Jack. Did you go to Jim’s birthday party?
—No, I felt so sad. I ________.
A. didn’t invite B. wasn’t invited C. am not invited D. hadn’t invited
4. Usually John ________ to school in his father’s beautiful car.
A. has taken B. is taking C. is taken D. has been taken
5. —Do you have any problems if you ________ this job?
—Well, I’m thinking about the working day.
A. offer B. will offer C. are offered D. will be offered
6. —It’s difficult for the village children to cross the river for school.
—I think a bridge ________ over the river.
A. was built B. is being built C. has been built D. should be built
7. The Chinese mainland pandas, Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, ________ to
A. sent B. were sending C. had sent D. were sent
8. —Look, what an old palace! It looks so great!
—Yeah, it ________ nearly 800 years ago.
A. was building B. was built C. has built D. is built
9. Don’t discuss the problems with your partner unless you ________ to do so.
A. ask B. are asked C. will ask D. will be asked
10. —Do you know the result of the competition?
—No. It ________.
A. hasn’t announced B. hasn’t been announced
C. didn’t announce D. wasn’t announced
11. A number of new houses ________ in Wenchuan in 2008.
A. built B. are built C. were built D. will be built
12. I ________ to leave at once, or I’ll be late for the meeting.
A. tell B. be told C. am told D. was told
13. The new bridge over the
A. built B. was built C. has built D. has been built
14. —Do you often plant trees in spring?
—Yes. Many trees ________ in our school every year.
A. plant B. are planting C. are planted D. were planted
15. A lot of new computers ________ to
A. are sent B. were sent C. will be sent D. sent
16. —Do you like this shirt? (www.hxen.com)
—Yes. It ________very soft.
A. is feeling B. feels C. is felt D. feel