The topic of passive sentences naturally leads onto participles . As such the next two post form a unit and should be read together. Now so far on this blog, we have dealt only with active sentences – where subject performs an action on some target object. With a passive sentence (sometimes called the passive voice) the grammatical subject gets something done to them! Compare: Active voice Passive voice Semantic : agent patient patient agent Grammatic : subject transitive object subject intransitive instrument The dog chases the cat The cat is chased by the dog
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