Wordie: Passive

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(adj): not involving participation or intervention

(adj): offering no resistance

(adj): peacefully resistant in response to injustice

(adj): vs. violent) -- (abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence

(adj): vs. active) -- (expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb

(n): 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

(n): (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes

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about 1 year ago uselessness said: A Tip for Proper English

The passive voice is to be avoided.

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