分类：教育/科学-外语学习-英语考试
问题：Theyweregone.这里的weregone是什么语态? 
They were gone .
这里的were gone 是什么语态?
回答：Goodquestn!Theansweristhereisnovoice(语态没有). Thesentenceiscorrectlywrittenthough.Thereasonis“were”isactingasalinkingverb,linkingthesubject“they”tothecomplement“gone.” “Gone,”beingapastparticiple,actsasanadjective. Hereisadiscussion,ifanyoneisi ,voicecannotexist. Withintransitiveverbs,thereisnodoer. Thereisonlyasubjectbeinglinkedtoacomplement. Notethatwiththepassivevoice,thedoermaynotbestatedbecausethedoerisembeddedinaprepositionalphraseandprepositionalphrasesarenotrequiredtogrammaticallycompletesentences. However,evenifthedoerofapassivevoicesentenceisnotstated,thedoerisstillimpliedtoexist. Theabovesentencealsolookslikeitcouldbeinthepastperfecttensebecausethepastparticipleimpliesthatsomethinghasbeencompleted,butthisisclearlynotthecasebecausethepastperfecttenseisformedbycombiningthehelpingverbhasorhave(notthelinkingverbbe)withthepastparticipleofthemainverb. Linkingasubjecttoapastparticiplecomplementwithalinkingverbisnotuncommon. Itisaconvenientwaytoimpartacompletedideaonasubjectwithamodifier. HereareacoupleexamplesfromaPinkFloydsongTwoSunsintheSunset: “Thesunisintheeasteventhoughthedayisdone. …couldbethehumanraceisrun.”