What does active voice mean?
Definitions for active voice
ac·tive voice
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Princeton's WordNet
active voice, activenoun
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"
Wiktionary
active voicenoun
the form in which the subject of a verb carries out some action
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active voice
Active voice is a grammatical structure in which the subject of the sentence performs or causes the action expressed by the verb. The focus is on who or what is performing the action. In other words, the subject is active. For example, "John ate the apple" is in active voice because John (the subject) is performing the action (eating).
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of active voice in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of active voice in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of active voice in a Sentence
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying, It got lost, and say, I lost it.
To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.
We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice-that is, until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'
Translations for active voice
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- صيغة معلوم, مبني معلومArabic
- činný rod, aktivumCzech
- AktivGerman
- aktiva voĉoEsperanto
- voz activaSpanish
- صیغه معلومPersian
- aktiiviFinnish
- gerðsøgnFaroese
- voix active, mode actifFrench
- guth spreigeachScottish Gaelic
- ներգործական սեռArmenian
- germyndIcelandic
- forma attiva, attivoItalian
- 能動態Japanese
- 能動態, 능동태Korean
- darāmā kārtaLatvian
- actief, activum, bedrijvende vormDutch
- voz ativaPortuguese
- diateză activăRomanian
- активный залог, действительный залог, активRussian
- aktivSerbo-Croatian
- veproreAlbanian
- aktivum, aktivSwedish
- செயலில் குரல்Tamil
- aktif sesTurkish
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