Focus Two, Stative Passive in Contrast to Dynamic Passive, explains through examples the differences in usage between stative and dynamic passives. In Exercise Two, learners are asked to identify each passive in the drivetrain paragraph as either stative or dynamic. In addition, learners are required in Exercise Three to change each passive in the chart from its present to past tense form. Learners are then asked to state a general rule about the tense of stative verbs. In Focus Three, Adjective Participles in Contrast to Stative Passives, form and meaning are considered as learners read that the forms are similar, yet the meanings are different.
Adjective participles express feelings and can be modified by the intensifier very .
Exercise Four then asks learners to compare the tenses found in statives and adjective participles. Once learners deduce a rule, they are to test it on the example sentences in Focus Two and Focus Three. Exercise Five then asks learners to identify statives and adjective participles in an example paragraph. Learners then identify the descriptive purpose of each stative in Exercise Six. Exercise Seven consists of matching words or phrases from one column with phrases in another column that relate rhetorically.