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passive voices

passive voices is the plural of passive voice.

Meaning of passive voice

Noun

passive voice (usually uncountable, plural passive voices)

  1. (usually) The form of a transitive verb in which its subject receives the action.
    • The passive voice is sometimes criticized for de-emphasizing the actor.
  2. (proscribed, usually) Any writing which obscures the identity of the perpetrator of an action, regardless of whether the sentence uses the passive form of a verb.
    • Phrases such as officer-involved shooting are often criticized as examples of passive voice.

Questions about passive voices

What is passive voices the plural of?
Passive voices is the plural of passive voice.

Words near passive voices in the dictionary

  1. passive vaporing
  2. passive vapouring
  3. passive vocabularies
  4. passive vocabulary
  5. passive voice
  6. passive voices
  7. passive-aggression
  8. passive-aggressive
  9. passive-aggressive personality disorder
  10. passive-aggressive personality disorders
  11. passive-aggressively

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