| 单词 | passive voice |
| 例句 | You may attempt to defend your enervating use of the passive voice by pointing out that the only alternative is excessive reliance upon the first person personal pronoun or upon the pontifical We. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Foremost among them is the unfairly maligned passive voice: Laius was killed by Oedipus, as opposed to Oedipus killed Laius. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The passive voice, too, has several uses in English. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This highlights yet another payoff of the passive voice: it can unburden memory by shortening the interval between a filler and a gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As the linguist Geoffrey Pullum has noted, there is nothing wrong with a news report that uses the passive voice to say, “Helicopters were flown in to put out the fires.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Once again the passive voice makes that possible, even though the baby didn’t do anything: The baby, he says, was given to him by another shepherd. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Though the heron is merely being observed by an unidentified birdwatcher at this point in the passage, the passive voice keeps it in the reader’s spotlight of attention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The passive voice is just one of the gadgets that the English language makes available to rearrange phrases while preserving their semantic roles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Among juvenile delinquents, he noticed a tendency to describe their transgressions in the passive voice, as if their crimes had happened to them rather than because of them. Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z And, most important, next time you write your story and attribute your decisions to somebody else, rewrite it on the spot without the passive voice. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Some boyfriends you quarantine with, others you quarantine from 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z The other criticism of the passive voice is that it recurs in the worst kind of prose: leaden academic and bureaucratic writing in particular. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z His sentences are frequently in the passive voice; his verbs eschew the pursuit of energy. One Last Book From a Virtuoso of the Short Story 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z That's a marvelous piece of writing, with its passive voice construction putting the chores, as opposed to the chore-bearer, front and center, rendering them less intentional than inevitable. Patti Smith's 'M Train' reckons with life, while 'Collected Lyrics' shows her living energy as words 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The same fog applied to signs depicting rules or requests, which were often conveyed in passive voice, presumably to avoid giving offense. So, you’re hiking across rural Britain? Walking the walk is the easy part. 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z TIME’s spell-check always admonishes me whenever I compose a sentence in the passive voice, a warning that is often ignored by me. Why Weird Al's 'Word Crimes' Is English for Dummies 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z A critic in America’s National Review carped: “Excellent use of the passive voice, Governor.” Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z If the devil lives in our language, then it feeds off passive voice: I am, you are, she is. If Donald Trump’s America is Hell, who is Satan? 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z Where passive voices plod one after the other, the writer should vary sentence structure and where the passive results in awkward flow, use sentence structure to link information sensibly for the reader’s sake. Passive panic 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z It was interesting to that Mortenson and Frey both talk about their lies in the same passive voice -- “mistakes were made.” Mary Karr calls liars on their lies and discusses 'The Art of Memoir' 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z And it is only when we write up our work that we revert to the inhuman, impersonal passive voice that creates the convenient fiction that the individual is not a part of the action. Scientists and their emotions: the highs ... and the lows 2013-02-10T00:04:02Z This may be merely a quirk on this reviewer’s part, but generally it doesn’t bode well for a movie when the opening text, setting up its premise, is in the passive voice. ‘Same Boat’ Review: At Sea, With an Assassin From the Future 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Notice the passive voice in its assertions that its channels “are blacked out due to a dispute” and that it hopes that further conversations with Charter “will restore access to its content.” Column: A plague on both Disney and Spectrum for treating their customers like crap 2023-09-06T04:00:00Z In the courtroom his lawyer read out a carefully written, complicated text, full of caveats, conditionals and the passive voice. Ex-Audi boss Stadler avoids jail in VW emissions scandal 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The passive voice — “was waved off,” “was materially misled” — represents the limits of the reporting, not of the testimony. Column: The DOJ's classified documents case was already dire for Trump. Now it looks even worse 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Blame is typically cast in the passive voice: Weather scientists crafted attention-grabbing terms, which were drawn into the ratings-driven media vortex. Can We Talk About How We Talk About the Weather? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z It's a passive voice construction, in which Trumpism somehow dies of its own extremism. Why Marjorie Taylor Greene is becoming “the most powerful woman” in Trump's GOP 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z He doesn't have to explain, equivocate or retreat into the passive voice. Way up there in blue: Seven children dead in Kabul — who is to blame? 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z In the passive voice, the subject receives the action, and the object actually becomes the subject. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “Six million people didn’t murder themselves. The Holocaust didn’t happen in the passive voice.” How photos of Nazis partying at Auschwitz gave rise to a new play 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Note my use of the passive voice: “were presented.” Review | Elena Ferrante has a new book! Be sure to get a notebook before reading it. 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z They noted that substituting different verbs, adding more agreeable phrases, using euphemisms and adopting the passive voice can make morally offensive behaviors more palatable to people. Column: The never-ending obfuscation of war 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Orthodox churches use a passive voice: “This person is baptized …” and the Catholic Church has recognized those baptisms for centuries. Perspective | Did a faulty pronoun really cancel Catholics’ baptisms, marriages, confessions? Read our Q&A for details. 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z Traditionally, writers in the sciences and technical fields have used the passive voice for objectivity and neutrality. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z There is the persistent use of the exculpatory passive voice, for one thing. Alice Sebold claims she saw no "debate" over racial justice in 1981. I don't buy it 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z He detests passive voice and considers footnotes clutter. Judge David Tatel’s lack of eyesight never defined him, but his blindness is woven into the culture of the influential appeals court in D.C. 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z His "mistakes were made" approach, which uses a passive voice to avoid laying the blame directly on oneself, was later adopted by others, including Ronald Reagan over the Iran-Contra affair. Marjorie Taylor Greene and the death of the public political apology 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z Graham is leaning heavily on the passive voice as if he and his fellow Senate Republicans are merely conduits for the will of Trump's base. Republican Senators aren't beholden to their base — they'll acquit Trump because they agree with him 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z Notice that by using the passive voice, the writer is able to avoid naming the person or group who conducted the survey. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z By contrast, passive voice is often used to distance oneself from something or someone. How Trump’s language shifted in the weeks leading up to the Capitol riot 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z “I don’t know what your sixth grade grammar teacher was like, but mine said, ‘Never use the passive voice,’” said Foley. President Pelosi? How a contested election brawl could unfold on Capitol Hill 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “Then they turn around and feign neutrality by writing passive voice articles. We get it: you hate us. And you’re competitors.” How Clubhouse brought the culture war to Silicon Valley’s venture capital community 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z They each seek to take the passive voice out of the grammar of American hardship: Your health insurance hasn’t somehow, mysteriously been made too expensive; your brick-and-mortar store hasn’t somehow, mysteriously been undercut. Opinion | The Billionaire Election 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The passive voice is a technique that writers often use when they don’t want to make the name of an individual or group public. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z I appreciate the app’s color coding of things as diverse as complex sentences and passive voice. Want the Greenest Device? You May Already Own It 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z “If you read the 12th Amendment, it uses the passive voice at the critical moment. It says the ‘the votes shall be counted.’ President Pelosi? How a contested election brawl could unfold on Capitol Hill 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z The story of your life can’t be written in the passive voice. Should I Tell the Children Why My Marriage Broke Up? 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z When I revise, I become my own writing instructor: make this passage more concise; avoid the passive voice; and God forbid a modifier should dangle. Can a Machine Learn to Write for The New Yorker? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z While it is not wrong to write in the passive voice on occasion, you will usually strengthen your writing by focusing on how a subject performs an action rather removing it from the direct action. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Important moves are couched in the passive voice or covered glancingly. Past special prosecutors explained themselves – and they all faced the same problems. What would Mueller say? 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z He spoke largely in the passive voice about how Ms. Hill was treated, despite the fact that he led the Senate committee when she testified before it. Joe Biden Declines to Directly Apologize to Anita Hill for His Handling of 1991 Hearing 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Since entering the race, he adopted the passive voice to offer a non-apology for the way Anita Hill was treated by the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where we served as chairman. Democrats need a 2020 candidate who inspires. Joe Biden isn't it | Max Berger 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The most significant person in the Stone indictment appears in a single line, in the passive voice, and seems to have had more authority than almost anyone on the Trump campaign. Robert Mueller Got Roger Stone 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z For more information about active and passive voice, see Clear and Effective Sentences. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Populists, even radical populists, often deploy the passive voice, speaking of inequality or a rigged game. What Kind of Populist Is Elizabeth Warren? 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The passive voice has been used repeatedly: a lot has been said. Ousmane Dembélé: the disconnected kid with a knack for vital goals | Sid Lowe 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z “When we use passive voice we make the perpetrator invisible,” Laskowski said. Here’s what sexual-assault survivor advocates will be watching for during Kavanaugh hearing 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Government statements very rarely use the passive voice, and tend to prefer using the active voice instead - there are only a handful examples of the former being used over the past few weeks. Linguistic hunt for Trump's New York Times insider 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z In the passive voice, the subject of the sentence is acted upon; in the active voice, the subject acts. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z “There was a separation,” the judge says, the bureaucratic passive voice redacting the active cruelty it describes. The Language of the Trump Administration Is the Language of Domestic Violence 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z Style manuals, including The Economist’s, generally deprecate the passive voice. The weasel voice in journalism 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “We apologize to Ms Lewinsky and regret the way the situation was handled,” Town & Country said the morning after, a classic sorry-but-not-sorry approach: the passive voice, the distancing from responsibility by calling it handled. After #MeToo, disinviting Monica Lewinsky is old-fashioned misogyny | Jean-Hannah Edelstein 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z However, the author of the column does use the passive voice, a few times: Linguistic hunt for Trump's New York Times insider 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z They use the passive voice in the method and results sections, which are more straight-up reporting. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z But no matter who they are in private, when I first encounter their writing, they use only the public passive voice: The text was read. Opinion | The Soul-Crushing Student Essay 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Harcourt never quite says; instead, he too often takes refuge in the passive voice and vague evocations of mysterious, impersonal forces. Review | When counterinsurgency tactics move from the batttlefield to the home front. 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z A few weeks later, then-White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, using his best passive voice, told a national television audience that changing libel laws “is something that is being looked at.” Trump shows an unsettling interest in overhauling libel laws 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z While Priebus was considered a passive voice on Afghanistan, Kelly all but forced a decision from the president with newfound urgency. ‘It’s a hard problem’: Inside Trump’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Sometimes we speak in the passive voice, when things are happening to us. Hitting moral puberty in middle age 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Some use the passive voice or “we” to describe who was doing the work. Swedish double-booked its surgeries, and the patients didn’t know 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z The passive voice is encouraged in scholarly prose precisely for the reasons that dramatists and journalists try to avoid it: it introduces distance between the action and the protagonist and between writer and reader. Scientific language is becoming more informal 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z My students always ask, “What is the passive voice?” Sorry, Donald Trump, we’re no longer running on man-time 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z A rather kind euphemism, using the passive voice. Comey: A theory 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z He later amended his financial reports and said, in his best passive voice, that he was “extremely disappointed in the filing errors that were made.” Republican VP contender's finances draw FBI scrutiny 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Then whittle away anything non-essential, and always avoid the passive voice as it eats up valuable space in your allotted word count. Prepare for Short Answer MBA Application Essays 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z One explanation for the rise is that as the passive voice becomes less fashionable, one obvious way to restructure sentences is to reach for a personal pronoun. Scientific language is becoming more informal 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z By employing the passive voice, Pullella avoids identifying himself as the questioner; the Catholic News Agency has the full text of the press conference. Off the Wall 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z The other giant stumbling block is using the passive voice. Think Nobody Bothers to Read Your Emails? You're Right. 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z How is it any different from Trump beyond removing the passive voice? Donald Trump is a monster of the GOP's own creation | Trevor Timm 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Wooden, third person or passive voice will just fall flat, according to a Business Insider interview with LinkedIn career expert Nicole Williams. 7 Things You Must Take Off Your LinkedIn Profile Immediately 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Many of them—particularly those in technical fields such as IT and Biotech—are trained as scientists where the use of the passive voice is often the recommended form. Lessons Learned from Jeb Bush's "Mistakes" 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The language used by Iran for its own commitment was in a passive voice, in a device of Persian grammar known as “nakarah,” a form of verbs that leaves the authorship open to guess. Too Soon to Cheer: The Nuclear Iran Agreement Is Perforated and Incomplete 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z I did note the use of the passive voice. MHP on Jeb Bush and his foreign policy team 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z I don't begrudge the publicity received by Seung but I think science reporting should be done entirely in the passive voice without naming a single person and personalising it. Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The closest I got to an explanation arrived in the passive voice: “The bowel was nicked.” Living With Cancer: Not Talking About Medical Mistakes 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z To scientists the passive voice avoids taking personal credit, appears more objective, and focuses on the results, as in: “Studies were made” or “tests were analyzed.” Lessons Learned from Jeb Bush's "Mistakes" 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In describing Israeli casualties, Akram conveniently lapses into the passive voice. The Media Intifada: Bad Math, Ugly Truths About New York Times In Israel-Hamas War 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The original Atlantic City police report is a triumph of the passive voice. A Penalty for Abuse Is Less Than for Steroids 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Use of the passive voice in an admission of wrongdoing has become so common that the political consultant William Schneider suggested a few years ago that it be referred to as the “past exonerative” tense. The curious grammar of police shootings She said that dangling participles and the passive voice were persistent problems. Carol Loomis, Editor for Warren Buffett, Leaves Job After 60 Years 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z But business people slip into the passive voice for a reason other than avoidance. Lessons Learned from Jeb Bush's "Mistakes" 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The error is, by the Universal Person of the passive voice, regretted. Today in Tabs: The Serious National Conversation Talking about his aide who was partly responsible for the closure, Christie could have used a shirking passive voice and said “someone who was in that circle of trust… betrayed my trust.” Don't Over-Analyze Christie's Apology 2014-01-15T21:50:21Z The use of the passive voice in forming both of those statements is somewhat chilling. Did we really all check 'agree' to this government snooping? 2013-06-12T14:49:12Z The passive voice “was quoted inaccurately” sounds a lot like “mistakes were made.” Jon Karl makes things worse 2013-05-19T16:04:00Z The phrase is constructed in the passive voice in which the doer of the action is not stated. Lessons Learned from Jeb Bush's "Mistakes" 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The passive voice can actually erase the human labor involved in making knowledge about the world. Building a scientific method around the ideal of objectivity. 2013-03-05T19:45:03.383Z Wonder and amazement at the natural world inspire many blog posts, projects, and even careers in science, but it’s rare that you’ll see wonder break through the soul-crushing passive voice of the scientific literature. The Taxonomy of Wonder 2013-03-01T14:45:05.380Z And when confronted with video clips and accounts his most unsavory behavior, Armstrong spoke about his victims in the passive voice, as if he hadn’t been present. Lance Armstrong interview analysis: He confessed, but . . . 2013-01-18T22:42:25Z With “I” or “we” resisted if not banned, passive voice abounds and the text becomes littered by words and phrases “thus,” “furthermore,” and “in this regard.” Science at the (Baseball) Plate 2012-12-13T19:45:00.497Z He practiced speaking in the most boring way possible, using the passive voice and long sentences. Thoroughly Counterintuitive Approach to Leading 2012-07-03T04:01:00Z The middle and passive voices are alike except in two tenses, the future and the aorist. A Greek Primer For Beginners in New Testament Greek 2012-03-30T02:00:17.703Z When he dies, it can be put on his tombstone: 'He was a verb in the passive voice, conjugated negatively.' Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Maybe we should use the passive voice — Mr. Perry was eliminated from the nomination contest. FiveThirtyEight: Winning Ugly, but Winning 2012-01-04T15:52:54Z If the subject is acted upon, the verb is in the passive voice. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z The passive voice did not exist in the parent Indo-European speech. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z This rule does not, of course, mean that the writer should entirely discard the passive voice, which is frequently convenient and sometimes necessary. A Foreword to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition 2011-08-20T02:00:13.567Z Which, attended with the other auxiliaries, make us the whole passive voice. The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; 2011-08-14T02:00:22.973Z Perhaps the weakest point in the language is the absence of a passive voice, for which the third person plural active, used impersonally, acts as a substitute. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z Only transitive verbs, therefore, may be changed to the passive voice. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z Some are written in the active, and some in the passive voice. Lindau Nobel Meeting--Sentences that win Nobel prizes 2011-06-28T03:45:00.250Z Written in the passive voice typical of such documents, the statement raises the question of who “tasked” such an undertaking. Common Sense: Writing a Check to Make a Bribery Charge Go Away 2011-06-24T19:43:20Z Some other rules: The passive voice is to be avoided and pop culture references are verboten. Funny or Die: Groupon?s Fate Hinges on Words 2011-05-28T17:14:49Z The preposition "by" or "with," preceding the complement of a verb in the passive voice, is de or per. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Write, conjugation of, active voice, 88 ff.; synopsis of, passive voice, 91. Business English A Practice Book 2011-11-19T03:00:25.507Z We have regular declensions of verbs in both the active voice and the passive voice and their form is accordingly changed. A Fantasy of Far Japan Summer Dream Dialogues 2011-04-09T02:00:13.677Z “The passive voice is wildly overused in government writing,” Mr. Kahn’s memo to his Civil Aeronautics Board staff continued. Economic View: A Champion of Plain English 2011-01-08T18:33:07Z This language expert cannot even correctly identify the passive voice. CNN reports on fraud linguist's Obama speech analysis 2010-06-17T15:18:00Z This verb is used to form the passive voice, and also all the compound tenses of the active voice. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z Other tenses and the passive voice were formed by auxiliary verbs. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Note that the command is in the passive voice, "Be filled," that is, "Let yourself be filled." The Spirit-Filled Life There's the active and passive voice, as they used to say at Miss Plucher's. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine The facts she taught were correct, except one, which was, that "is ashamed" was a verb in the passive voice; in this she was corrected by a number of the class. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education Intransitive verbs have therefore no object and no passive voice. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z The passive voice is, as the name implies, not emphatic. The Century Handbook of Writing When the subject is acted upon the verb is said to be in the passive voice. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses It is true for the more abstract principles, such as the formation of the compound tenses, the formation and the use of the passive voice, and so on. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College A verb impersonal of the passive voice may be elegantly taken for each person of both numbers; that is to say, by virtue of a case added to it. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue The passive participles, with the verb esti, form all the moods and tenses in the passive voice. The International Auxiliary Language Esperanto Grammar and Commentary 2011-04-12T02:00:28.753Z The passive voice is especially objectionable when by failing to indicate the agent of the verb it unnecessarily mystifies the reader. The Century Handbook of Writing Verbs in the passive voice have no objects because the subject, being acted upon, is itself in the place of an object. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses Now the Saxons have no passive voice at all. A Handbook of the English Language In the second paragraph, change two of the sentences to the passive voice. English: Composition and Literature When these vowels are preceded by p, it shows that the verb is in the passive voice. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 In Malay the passive voice is denoted by the particle di- prefixed to the verb. A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay It is used mainly in expressing completed action or in the passive voice. Practical Grammar and Composition Sometimes it is by the use of the passive voice. A Handbook of the English Language In the second sentence Burke has used a passive voice when it would certainly be more elegant to change to the active. English: Composition and Literature To farm was an occupation easily parsed—subjunctive mood, past tense, passive voice! Deep Furrows The concrete meaning of the root is “to know by sight, to recognize.” ɔiban, past participle, passive voice, of ɔib to write: the original signification of the word is “to paint.” The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 Since only transitive verbs can have a receiver of the action, only transitive verbs can have both active and passive voice. Practical Grammar and Composition In the passive voice also it is thus used, and the participles are nouns or adjectives. On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 In sentences the commonest errors are in linking an infinitive with a gerund, a participle with a verb, an active with a passive voice, a phrase with a clause. English: Composition and Literature The next day the child was asked, in class, to explain the passive voice, and said, "It's the kind of voice you speak with when you ain't quite dead." Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterit to the substantive verb, as I am loved. A Grammar of the English Tongue Only the first, then, of each pair can have an object or can be used in the passive voice. Practical Grammar and Composition The object of this was to allow the crown a passive voice, if not an active one, in the nomination of Catholic bishops. An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 The same in its proportion is to be understood of the passive voice. Grammatical Sketch of the Heve Language Shea's Library of American Linguistics. Volume III. The Conjugation of an active verb, is styled the active voice; and that of a passive verb, the passive voice. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures "I mean to keep my cabin locked," he told her in a perfectly passive voice, but in a manner that halted her suddenly, angry as she was. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper What is the difference between active and passive voice? Practical Grammar and Composition It takes some form of the verb to be to express the passive voice of any action-word. Quiet Talks on Prayer Change these sentences so that the italicized, verbs will be either in the perfect tense or in the passive voice:— 1. Practical Exercises in English "Give me the first person singular, passive voice, present tense, of the verb to love." Darrel of the Blessed Isles Voice.+—Verbs are said to be in the active voice when they represent the subject as acting, and in the passive voice when they represent the subject as being acted upon. Composition-Rhetoric "But all the other moods and tenses of the verbs, both in the active and passive voices, are conjugated at large." The Grammar of English Grammars It takes the intensest activity of will to put this passive voice into human action. Quiet Talks on Prayer The +indirect,+ or dative, +object+ is sometimes made the +subject+ of a verb in the passive voice, while the object complement is retained after the verb. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition But in a case of illness we require the passive voice. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale Intransitive verbs, from their very nature, have no passive voice. Composition-Rhetoric The passive voice is formed by putting the perfect participle of any transitive verb with any of the eleven parts of the verb To Be. How to Speak and Write Correctly The Mpongwes have a great partiality for the use of the passive voice, and avoid the active when the passive can be used. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 What may be mistaken for a verb in the passive voice? Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition But first he had wit enough to step below the break, and get behind a gorse bush, lest haply he should illustrate only the passive voice of seeing. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale The passive voice must not be confused with such a form as the progressive conjugation of the verb. Composition-Rhetoric "It all rests with Warren," she said presently, half-aloud, and in a toneless, passive voice. The Heart of Rachael The +object complement+ of a verb in the +active voice+ becomes the +subject+ when the verb is changed to the +passive voice.+ Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition How is a transitive verb conjugated in the passive voice? Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition A transitive verb is conjugated in the +passive voice+ by joining its past participle to the different forms of the verb be. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition It may be well to distinguish here between the passive voice and a past participle used as an attribute complement of the verb be. Composition-Rhetoric The passive voice may be used when the agent is unknown, or when, for any reason, we do not care to name the agent; as, The ship was wrecked; Money is coined. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition The intransitive verb and preposition are together equivalent to a transitive verb in the passive voice. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition An expression consisting of an asserting word followed by an adjective complement or by a participle used adjectively may be mistaken for a verb in the passive voice. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition |
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