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passive
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accepting what happens or not opposing what other people do or say
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(grammar) describing a verb whose subject is affected by the action of the verb
Example
The passive construction ' The cake was baked by Mary ' shifts the focus away from who performed the action.
She preferred to use passive constructions in her writing to emphasize the action rather than the subject.
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peacefully resistant in response to injustice
Passive
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(grammar) the form of a verb used when the grammatical subject is affected by the action of the verb, rather than performing it
