Active Voice.

Active Voice.

18.The form of conjugating the active verb, is often called the Active Voice, and that of the passive verb, the Passive Voice.

This author pretends that, "The RULE of all grammarians declares the verb is, and a present participle (is building, or is writing), to be in the active voice" only.

Not concurring with Dr. Bullions in the notion that the active voice and the passive usually "express precisely the same thing," this critic concludes his argument with the following sentence: "There is an important difference between doing and suffering; and that difference is grammatically shown by the appropriate use of the active and passive voices of a verb.

Participle always ends in ing, and is limited to the Active Voice.

Dr. Adam, in fact, if he denies this, only contradicts himself; for, in his paradigms of the English Active Voice, he gives the participles as two only, and both simple, thus: "Present, Loving; Perfect, Loved:""Present, Having; Perfect, Had."

Yet, for the verb love, he finds these six: two "IMPERFECT, Loving and Being loved;" two "PERFECT, Having loved, and Having been loved;" one "AUXILIARY PERFECT, Loved," of the "Active Voice;" and one "PASSIVE, Loved," of the "Passive Voice."

79;)that, "The use of this participle in the perfect tenses of the active voice should not be taken into consideration in giving it a name or a definition;" (p. 80;)that

"For convenience, it may be well to state it as a rule, thatPassive verbs govern an objective, when the nominative to the passive verb is not the proper object of the active voice.

Fisk adds with no great accuracy "In the past and future tenses of the active voice also, these verbs generally require the sign to, to be prefixed to the following verbs; as, 'You have dared to proceed without authority;' 'They will not dare to attack you.'"Gram.

Some are apt to jumble together the active voice and the passive, and thus destroy the unity even of a short sentence; as, "By exercising our memories, they are improved.

"The Active voice signifies action; the Passive, suffering, or being the object of an action.

"The Conjugation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE; and that of a passive verb the PASSIVE VOICE."Frost's El. of E. Gram., p. 19.

"The conjugation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE; and that of a passive verb, the PASSIVE VOICE."Frost cor.; also Smith:

Form: "Bless, a verb, (repeat 97); active (repeat 99); active voice (102); infinitive mood (107); third person, soul being the nominative (118); present tense (111); conjugate the verb after the pattern (129); its object is Lord (99)."Blair's Gram., p. 50.

"Verbs have three participlesthe present, the past, and the perfect; as, loving, loved, having loved, in the active voice: AND being loved, loved, having been loved, in the passive."Ib., p. 76.

Hence the rule, "Transitive verbs govern the objective case," or, as Wells now has it, "Transitive verbs, in the active voice, govern the objective case," (Sec. 215,) rests only upon a distinction which itself creates, between transitives and intransitives; and therefore it amounts to little.

In the Doctor's "New Edition, Revised and Corrected," the text stands thus: "The Present participle of THE ACTIVE VOICE has an active signification; as, James is building the house.

What is in "the active voice," ought of course to be active in "signification;" but, in this author's present scheme of the verb, we find "the active voice," in direct violation of his own definition of it, ascribed not only to verbs and participles either neuter or intransitive, but also, as it would seem by this passage, to "many" that are passive!G. BROWN.

What is in "the active voice," ought of course to be active in "signification;" but, in this author's present scheme of the verb, we find "the active voice," in direct violation of his own definition of it, ascribed not only to verbs and participles either neuter or intransitive, but also, as it would seem by this passage, to "many" that are passive!G. BROWN.

Voice.+Verbs are said to be in the active voice when they represent the subject as acting, and in the passive voice when they represent the subject as being acted upon.

The direct object in the active voice generally becomes the subject in the passive; if the subject of the active appears in the passive, it is the object of the preposition by:

"That is the active voice," said she, turning with a smile.

Even woman has an Active Voice in the matter; indeed, "to love" is so perfect that, compared with it, "to marry" is quite irregular.

F. τυπῶ τυποῖμι τυπεῖν τυπῶν Passive Voice.

Priestley and Maunder have two, which they call transitive and neuter; but Maunder, like some named above, will have transitive verbs to be susceptible of an active and a passive voice, and Priestley virtually asserts the same.

18.The form of conjugating the active verb, is often called the Active Voice, and that of the passive verb, the Passive Voice.

20.J. R. Chandler, of Philadelphia, in his Common School Grammar of 1847, has earnestly undertaken the defence of this new and much-mooted passive expression: which he calls "the Definite Passive Voice," or "the Passive Voice of the Definite Form."

The Past (or Second) Participle of Regular Verbs ends in d or ed, and is limited to the Passive Voice.

Thus Dr. Crombie: "Whatever is put in the accusative case after the verb, must be the nominative to it in the passive voice, while the other case is retained under the government of the verb, and cannot become its nominative.

12.Murray's second censure upon passive government, is this: "The following sentences, which give [to] the passive voice the regimen of an active verb, are very irregular, and by no means to be imitated.

Here, the words is being lost form the true present tense of the passive voice; in which voice, all verbs, thus expressed, are unsuspectedly situated: thus, agreeing with the noun shame, as the nominative of the first member of the sentence.

The same verb that governs it in the passive voice, governs it in the active.

"The passive voice denotes a being acted upon.

Therefore, the phraseology should be altered; thus, "The passive voice denotes an action received."

Or; "The passive voice denotes the receiving of an action.

Its being used in the passive voice after be made.

"In the passive voice we say, 'I am loved.'"Id.

"But in all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and of the passive voice [the verbs] are conjugated at large."Murray cor.

"The passive voice denotes an action received."

Or: "The passive voice denotes the receiving of an action.

The passive voice is formed by joining the participle preterit to the substantive verb, as I am loved."

5.Verbs of asking, giving, teaching, and some others, are often employed in the passive voice to govern a noun or pronoun; as, 'He was asked his opinion.

When a Verb with its Accusative case, is equivalent to a single verb, it may take this accusative after it in the passive voice; as, 'This has been put an end to.

Intransitive verbs, from their very nature, have no passive voice.

If the indirect object becomes the subject in the passive voice, the direct object is known as the retained object: [He was paid nine dollars by John].

The passive voice must not be confused with such a form as the progressive conjugation of the verb.

The passive voice always shows action received by the subject, while the participle is used only as an adjective denoting condition:

Change these sentences so that the italicized, verbs will be either in the perfect tense or in the passive voice: 1.