12 Facts About Grammatical voice

Active Grammatical voice is the most commonly used in many languages and represents the "normal" case, in which the subject of the verb is the agent.

Passive Grammatical voice is employed in a clause whose subject expresses the theme or patient of the verb.

Some languages, such as English and Spanish, use a periphrastic passive Grammatical voice; that is, it is not a single word form, but rather a construction making use of other word forms.

Antipassive Grammatical voice deletes or demotes the object of transitive verbs, and promotes the actor to an intransitive subject.

In some cases, the middle voice is any grammatical option where the subject of a material process cannot be categorized as either an actor or a goal.

For example, while the passive Grammatical voice expresses a medium being affected by an external agent as in sentence, the middle Grammatical voice expresses a medium undergoing change without any external agent as in sentence.

Mandarin active Grammatical voice sentences has the same verb phrase structure as English active Grammatical voice sentences.

Grammatical voice believed that Bei construction is presented in three types, two of them have different selectional properties, and the other one is lexically derived as Bei-V compound.

Grammatical voice argues that we can treat notional passives in Mandarin as middle constructions.

In Estonian, the agent can be included by using the postposition poolt, although using such a construction instead of the active Grammatical voice is criticized as a foreignism and characteristic of officialese.

In both Finnish and Estonian, the use of the impersonal Grammatical voice generally implies that the agent is capable of own initiative.

The usual passive Grammatical voice is the se pasiva, in which the verb is conjugated in the active Grammatical voice, but preceded by the se particle:.