active voice

Noun

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

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Synonyms

active subject does the action subject is active subject is doing the action subject acts upon the verb subject is doing the acting subject performs the action dynamic voice running vote acting voice animated voice buzzing voice energetic voice frisky voice military voice
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Antonyms

passive voice free heavy dead broken flat
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Hypernyms

voice

Examples

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 stop saying 'It got lost,' and say 'I lost it.' Sydney J. Harris

Objectivity is the subject subjugating the object. That is how you assert yourself. You make yourself the active voice and the object is the passive no-voice. Emily Levine

`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice Source: Internet

;Reflexive verbs Reflexive forms are made from the active voice and the pronoun ok: :Vatükob I wash, vatükobok (or vatükob obi) I wash myself. Source: Internet

Hart’s muscular prose is an editor’s dream, written not just in active voice but using verbs you feel in your viscera." Source: Internet

The present, imperfect, future, pluperfect and future perfect use the same personal endings in the active voice. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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