- 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 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
- 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 - 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
- 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 definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
If you describe someone as passive, you mean that they do not take action but instead let things happen to them
- passive - WordReference. com Dictionary of English
Grammar (opposed to active) of, relating to, or being a voice, verb form, or construction that expresses an action that is done to rather than by the subject: In a passive sentence, the subject undergoes the action of the verb but does not perform it
- 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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