active voice

One of the two “voices” of verbs ( see also passive voice ). When the verb of a sentence is in the active voice, the subject is doing the acting, as in the sentence “Kevin hit the ball.” Kevin (the subject of the sentence) acts in relation to the ball.

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Hawa also supports women to have an active voice by including them in community councils.

We have regular declensions of verbs in both the active voice and the passive voice and their form is accordingly changed.

The active voice is that form of a transitive verb which makes the subject and the agent the same word.

There is no part of the Active Voice that can, strictly speaking, be denominated a Participle.

Except when great accuracy is desired, these tenses, like those of the active voice are not often used.

But in what is usually denominated the active voice of the verb, the English language has undifferentiated parts of speech.

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