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- PASSIVE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
passive implies immobility or lack of normally expected response to an external force or influence and often suggests deliberate submissiveness or self-control
- PASSIVE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
'Catrin told me' is an active sentence, and 'I was told by Catrin' is passive In a passive sentence, the subject is the person or thing affected by the action of the verb
- PASSIVE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Passive definition: not reacting visibly to something that might be expected to produce manifestations of an emotion or feeling See examples of PASSIVE used in a sentence
- THE PASSIVE VOICE - Perfect English Grammar
We make the passive by putting the verb 'to be' into whatever tense we need and then adding the past participle For regular verbs, we make the past participle by adding 'ed' to the infinitive
- Passives | LearnEnglish
Do you know how to use the passive voice to change the focus of a sentence? Test what you know with interactive exercises and read the explanation to help you
- passive - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English passyf, passyve, from Middle French, French passif, from Latin passivus (“serving to express the suffering of an action; in late Latin literally capable of suffering or feeling”), from passus, past participle of pati (“to suffer”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”); compare patient
- Passive - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
When you're passive, you don't participate much and you're not very emotional In chemistry, passive means to be "unreactive except under special or extreme conditions; inert "
- Passive - definition of passive by The Free Dictionary
Used to describe a form of verb in which the grammatical subject is the object of the action, for example, the sentence “The government took steps ” in the passive would be Steps were taken by the government ”
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