Results showed that, when the subjects become aware that the object of transitive verbs was affected, they would be able to passivize canonical action verbs, largely free of errors.

• 实验结果表明，当受试意识到动词宾语受到动词的作用时，他们几乎不会用错英语的被动结构。但是对于那些必须从抽象的意义上去理解为给宾语施以作用的动词，其被动结构对中国学生来说是一个难题。