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...

A passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject...

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...

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...

Conditional sentence English grammar English irregular verbs English modal verbs English passive voice Wiktionary appendix: Irregular English verbs Northern...

tenses. For related passive constructions (of the type it is said that and she is said to), see English passive voice § Passive constructions without...

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...

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...

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...

possible verb voices: active and passive. The active voice corresponds with the active voice of English, but the Finnish passive voice has some important...