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Definition of Passives
1. passive [n] - See also: passive
Literary usage of Passives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ethiopic Grammar by August Dillmann, Carl Bezold (1907)
"In like manner all passives of Verbs which have two Accusatives in the Active,
take the Accusative of one of the two Objects of the Active Stem, ..."
2. Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards (1844)
"DEPONENT passives. [§§ 196, 197. REMARK. The Perfect, / have known, is expressed by
... Summary of all the Deponent passives. §102,2,3. ..."
3. The Principles of Latin Grammar: Comprising the Substance of the Most by Peter Bullions (1873)
"... The following verbs are called Neutral passives, namely, .flo, ... They have
ah active form, but a passive signification, and serve as passives topacio, ..."
4. A Text-book of Colloquial Japanese by Rudolf Lange, Christopher Noss (1903)
"It is to be observed, by the way, that verbs of this kind as passives may be
predicated 01 inanimate things, while regular passives arc naturally used when ..."
5. History of the New World Called America by Edward John Payne (1899)
"... and passives, by providing a simple and ready means of bringing and keeping
this relation, in both aspects, before the mind, promoted its application to ..."
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