Passive Voice:A Closer Look 1.Syntactic Passive: passive voice in the form and structure as being 'passive ■2.Notional Passive passive voice not in the form and structure as being passive',but offering a passive notion ■(Jesperson) 99 Passive Voice: A Closer Look ◼ 1. Syntactic Passive: ◼ passive voice in the form and structure as being ‘passive’ ◼ 2. Notional Passive ◼ passive voice not in the form and structure as being ‘passive’, but offering a passive notion ◼ (Jesperson)