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

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...

form ate is in the active voice, but in sentence (2), the verb form was eaten is in the passive voice. Independent of voice, the cat is the Agent (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...

Look up passive, passively, or passivity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Passive may refer to: Passive voice, a grammatical voice common in many languages...

European and Indian languages, the past participle is used to form the passive voice. In English, participles are also associated with periphrastic verb...

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...

This construction is similar to the passive voice, in that it decreases the verb's valency by one – the passive by deleting the agent and "promoting"...

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...

'speaks', 'spoke', 'has spoken', and 'had spoken', respectively or in the passive voice, 'it is spoken', 'it was spoken', 'it has been spoken', and 'it had...