Active voice
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title:
Active voice
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Active voice is a grammatical voice prevalent in many of the world's languages. It is the default voice for clauses that feature a transitive verb in nominative–accusative languages, including English and most Indo-European languages. In these languages, a verb is typically in the active voice when the subject of the verb is the doer of the action. In active voice, the subject of the sentence performs the action expressed by the main verb and is thus the agent. For example, in the sentence "The
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Grammatical voice
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_voice
date created:
2002-12-05T14:37:08Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T07:38:22Z
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