Grammatical category of verbs which in nominative languages includes active, passive and in a few languages middle ( middle voice) forms. The choice of voice depends on the relationship between semantic roles ( agent, patient) and syntactic functions (...

Verbal voice contrasting with active and passive which is found in Sanskrit and classical Greek. The middle voice is semantically similar to reflexive constructions in that it describes an action which is performed by the subject for his/her own...

See also verbs The passive voice is a grammatical term used to refer to the form of the verb in which the recipient of an action is the subject of the sentence: ‘These teachers are being praised by the school governors for their...

Verbal voice which contrasts with passive and middle voice in nominative languages. The active voice generally expresses the agent as the subject of a sentence and is considered the unmarked form, since it generally has no restrictions, appears with...

In grammar, the voice (also called gender or diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.). When the subject is the agent or...