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passive participles

passive participles is the plural of passive participle.

Meaning of passive participle

Noun

passive participle (plural passive participles)

  1. A participle indicating an ongoing or completed action or state in the passive voice, where a noun modified by the participle is taken to represent the patient of the action denoted by the verb.

Questions about passive participles

What is passive participles the plural of?
Passive participles is the plural of passive participle.

Words near passive participles in the dictionary

  1. passive learning
  2. passive matrices
  3. passive matrix
  4. passive matrixes
  5. passive participle
  6. passive participles
  7. passive photolocation
  8. passive provision
  9. passive radar
  10. passive resistance
  11. passive resister

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