active voice

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active voice

The active voice is a type of grammatical voice in which the subject of a sentence is also the agent of the verb—that is, it performs the action expressed by the verb. In active-voice sentences, the agent always comes before the verb.

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active voice - the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb; "`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice"

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

passive, passive voice - 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"

Translations

Aktiv

aktiivi

aktiv

germynd

能動態

aktivaktivum

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If we add to this, that as the members vote by States, and that where there is only a single member present from a State, his vote is lost, it will justify a supposition that the active voices in the Senate, where the members are to vote individually, would rarely fall short in number of the active voices in the existing Congress.

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The second time around

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Active Voice, LLC, a provider of unified messaging, computer-telephony and voice messaging solutions, has announced its new Seven speech enabled directory application.

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'For the first time ever the players will have an active voice and genuine vote in the running of the game.