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" Passive, the Object of the active verb becomes the Subject of the passive. "
An Advanced English Grammar: With Exercises - Page 110
by George Lyman Kittredge, Frank Edgar Farley - 1913 - 333 pages
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Analytical Grammar of the English Language, Embracing the Introductive and ...

Dyer Hook Sanborn - 1848 - 300 pages
...Verbs in the common form are used indefinitely. 451. When active verbs are changed into passive verbs, the object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb, and the agent of the active verb is expressed in the objective case with the preposition by,...
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A French grammar

B. Du Gué - 1848 - 230 pages
...past of the active verb ; and by placing de, of ; par, by, after the verb. It will be observed that the object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb ; as, Active. Passive. J aime mon père, Mon père est aimé de moi, I love my father. My father...
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The Bromsgrove Latin grammar [signed G.A.J.].

George Andrew Jacob - 1851 - 324 pages
...persons ; as, alterum in alterius sanguine, Virg.jE.ii. 667. VERBS. § 80. The Voices. 1. The immediate object of the Active verb becomes the subject of the Passive ; and thus the Accusative case is changed to the Nominative ; as, amo illum, ille amatur a me, I love him....
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Henry's English Grammar; a Manual for Beginners

Thomas Kerchever Arnold - 1853 - 246 pages
...into an equivalent sentence whose verb is in the passive voice. (f^r Hence we have this rule : 170 The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive verb. " The mother punishes the child." " The mother" is the what? [The subject, .] " The child is...
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A Practical Grammar: In which Words, Phrases, and Sentences are Classified ...

Stephen W. Clark - 1853 - 242 pages
...subject of the Active Verb, becomes the object of "by," when the verb incomes Passive ; and " Charles," the object of the Active Verb, becomes the subject of the Passive. NOTE. — The Passive Voice of a verb is formed by adding the Passive Participle of that verb to the...
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A Practical Grammar Illustrated by a Complete System of Diagrams

Stephen W. Clark - 1855 - 258 pages
...of the Active Verb, b«"-omes the obiect of " by," when the verb — comes Passive; and "Charles," the object of the Active Verb, becomes the subject of the Passive. NOTE. — The Passive Voice of a verb is formed by adding the Passive Participle of that verb to the...
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"Shall," and "Will": Or, Two Chapters on Future Auxiliary Verbs

Sir Edmund Head - 1856 - 146 pages
...passive verb, of which the active would be " factum — ire"? The essence of a passive structure is that the object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive, which would then be the case. In Pliny (xxxii. 47) we have of Crassus, " nee fuit satis nisi totum...
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The Elements of English Grammar

Samuel Stillman Greene - 1858 - 266 pages
...followed by an object of kindred signification ; as, " He ran a race." " She dreamed a dream." REM. 7. — The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive; as, " Romulus founded Rome" .= Rome was founded .by Komuh». REM. 8. — To avoid ambiguity, the object...
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"Shall" and "Will": Or, Two Chapters on Future Auxiliary Verbs: to which are ...

Edmund Walker Head, sir Edmund Walker Head (8th bart.) - 1858 - 200 pages
...passive verb, of which the active would be " factum ire " ? The essence of a passive structure is that the object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive, which would then be the case. In Pliny (xxxii. 47) we have of Crassus, "nee fuit satis nisi totum Parthorum...
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A Grammar of the English Language: Adpated to the Use of Schools and Academies

Samuel Stillman Greene - 1860 - 276 pages
...are followed by an object of kindred signification ; as, " He ran a race." " She dreamed a dream." 7. The object of the active verb becomes the subject of the passive ; as, " Romulus founded Rome" = Rome was founded by Romulus. 8. To avoid ambiguity, the object should...
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