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Passive   /pˈæsɪv/   Listen
Passive

adjective
1.
Lacking in energy or will.  Synonym: inactive.
2.
Peacefully resistant in response to injustice.  Synonym: peaceful.
3.
Expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb.
noun
1.
The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is the recipient (not the source) of the action denoted by the verb.  Synonym: passive voice.  "'The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"



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"Passive" Quotes from Famous Books



... and privileges of the mighty dead. And if such was really the intention of the ceremony, it is obvious that it was better effected by compelling the young communicants, as we may call them, to die and rise from the dead in their own persons than by obliging them to assist as mere passive spectators at a dramatic performance of death and resurrection. Yet in spite of this difference between the two rituals, the general resemblance between them is near enough to justify us in conjecturing that there may ...
— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer
... waistcoat. It covers—in a most inadequate way—the wind, and even a gentle tap in the locality is apt to produce a fleeting sense of discomfort. A genuine flush hit on the spot, shrewdly administered by a muscular arm with the weight of the body behind it, causes the passive agent in the transaction to wish fervently, as far as he is at the moment physically capable of wishing anything, that he had never been born. 'Charles his friend' collapsed like an empty sack, and Charteris, ...
— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse
... of the Revolution the Cossacks refused to shoot down the people. When Kornilov marched on Petrograd they refused to follow him. From passive loyalty to the Revolution the Cossacks have passed to an active political offensive (against it). From the back-ground of the Revolution they have suddenly advanced to the front of ...
— Ten Days That Shook the World • John Reed
... the London world—it was just the outermost ripple of the vast disturbance of the French Revolution which touched the little spot, part of the free new eager spirit which sent men questing for a loveliness they could neither make nor control, and of which they must be humble and passive spectators, and part also of vast causes and changes, which drove Englishmen to seek their holidays ...
— Lynton and Lynmouth - A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland • John Presland
... Affirmative or Indicative, the Negative or Interrogative, the Subjunctive, the Imperative, and the Infinitive. Many, but not all, Transitive Verbs have a Passive Participle. ...
— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart


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