In English, the passive voice is marked by a subject that is followed by a stative verb complemented by a past participle. For example: The enemy was defeated...
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A passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject...
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verb is in the middle voice. The following pair of examples illustrates the contrast between active and passive voice in English. In sentence (1), the...
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impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero.: 77 The impersonal passive deletes...
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tenses. For related passive constructions (of the type it is said that and she is said to), see English passive voice § Passive constructions without...
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the passive voice, where the subject is the recipient of the action, such as in "The fish was eaten by the cat." The use of both active and passive voices...
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Conditional sentence English grammar English irregular verbs English modal verbs English passive voice Wiktionary appendix: Irregular English verbs Northern...
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The mediopassive voice is a grammatical voice that subsumes the meanings of both the middle voice and the passive voice. Languages of the Indo-European...
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verbs can be rephrased as passive constructs in some languages. In English, intransitive verbs can be used in the passive voice when a prepositional phrase...
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Pseudopassive (redirect from Pseudo-passive)
Prepositional passive, a form of English passive voice in which the object of a preposition becomes the subject of a clause Passive voice, a grammatical form in...
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