Week 10: Voice, Participles, and Negation
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# Week 10: Voice, Participles, and Negation > **Course:** Jan 2026 - English II > **Focus:** Grammar classification with a small set of very specific labels. --- ## 1.
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Week 10: Voice, Participles, and Negation
Course: Jan 2026 - English II Focus: Grammar classification with a small set of very specific labels.
1. Core idea
Week 10 is grammar precision. The answer is often a category label, not a long explanation.
What to remember
- Passive voice usually flips the focus onto the receiver of an action.
- Participles can behave like adjectives.
- Verb counting depends on whether a form is the main verb or part of a participial phrase.
- Negative-sensitive items appear in negative environments.
2. Common traps
- Mixing up finite verbs and participles.
- Treating every sentence with "not" as a pure negative-logic question.
- Forgetting that the test often wants the linguistic category, not the surface form.
3. Speedrun pattern
When you see a Week 10 question, ask:
- What is the grammatical category being tested?
- Which word is the actual verb?
- Is the sentence passive, negative, or participial?