ABSTRACT
This chapter covers three interesting but challenging English structural alternation issues: object placement, subject/object omission, and the passive voice. Structural alternation means the alternate forms that a given structure may assume, as will be shown below. Structural alternation issues are challenging because ESL/EFL learners often do not know when and why an alternate form of a given structure is used or selected and what semantic implications its selection has. Helping ESL/EFL learners understand these questions are essential for them to correctly grasp of the usages of the alternate forms.
