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...

theme is named a passive clause, and its verb is expressed in passive voice. Many languages have both an active and a passive voice and this allows for...

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...

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...

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...

the direct object of the sentence. Active–stative language English passive voice Passive voice Patient (grammar) Kroeger, Paul (2005). Analyzing Grammar:...

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

to Rational Living, by Albert Ellis and Robert A. Harper (1975) English passive voice Elaboration Epistemology Implicit attitude Language ideology § Language...

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"...

infinitive), not knowing what to do. English grammar English verb tenses English auxiliary verbs English passive voice English subjunctive "Clause". Glossary...

active and a passive articulator. Active articulators are organs capable of voluntary movement which create the constriction, while passive articulators...

constructions such as questions, negative polarity, the passive voice and progressive aspect. English word order has moved from the Germanic verb-second (V2)...

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

object) For more examples of such constructions in English, see English passive voice and Uses of English verb forms § Uses of non-finite verbs. As a dependent...

can also be marked for passive voice (as can the plain infinitive): (to) eat (plain infinitive, active) (to) be eaten (passive) (to) have eaten (perfect...

object of a transitive verb or to the subject of a verb in the passive voice. Examples in English are "the tree fell"; "the window broke". In those sentences...

objects and do not change their endings. There is no passive voice in Tolo. English passive voice can be implied by using kesana 'someone' or hira 'they'...

foundation." Misconception: The passive voice is incorrect. It is a misconception that the passive voice is always incorrect in English. Some "writing tutors"...

passive-voice deponents. An example in classical Greek is ἔρχομαι (erchomai, 'I come' or 'I go'), middle/passive in form but translated into English using...

ditransitive verbs have a passive voice form which can take a direct object. Contrast the active and two forms of the passive: Active: Jean gave the books...

Passive house (German: Passivhaus) is a voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, which reduces the building's ecological footprint. Conforming...

as in English constructions using "each other". In most cases, the transitive verbs are also used. In modern Scandinavian languages, the passive (or more...

express meanings such as negation, present and past tense, volition, passive voice, causation, imperative and conditional mood, and ability. There are...

correspond fairly well to English: 'speaks', 'spoke', 'has spoken', and 'had spoken', respectively or in the passive voice, 'it is spoken', 'it was spoken'...

serve as auxiliaries in English and many related[clarification needed] languages are the equivalents of be to express passive voice, and have (and sometimes...