passive lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• lacking in energy or will "Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself" - George Meredith
• expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb "academics seem to favor passive sentences"
• peacefully resistant in response to injustice "passive resistance"
• 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 "`The ball was thrown by the boy' uses the passive voice" "`The ball was thrown' is an abbreviated passive"