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ACTIVE VOICE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb
Example:
'The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice
Synonyms:
active; active voice
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("active voice" is a kind of...):
voice ((linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes)
Antonym:
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)
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