Patient (grammar)
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Patient (grammar)
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In linguistics, the grammatical patient, also called the target or undergoer, is a semantic role representing the participant of a situation upon whom an action is carried out, or the thematic relation such a participant has with an action. Sometimes, theme and patient are used to mean the same thing. When used to mean different things, patient describes a receiver that changes state and theme describes something that does not change state. By that definition, stative verbs act on themes, and dy
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