passive - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • use: Good uses of passives There are times of course when you should use a passive.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: Makes people passive and likely to wait or someone else to cure them.

Adjective modifier

  • safe: Safe driver passive were bought by not yet being take a long-term.

Modifies a noun

  • smoking: How can passive smoking be a danger to health?
  • recipient: They are merely passive recipients of the shares or the money.
  • verb: With a passive verb, the order is reversed: object then verb then agent.
  • euthanasia: Right to Life - petitions to fight against the campaign to legalize passive euthanasia.
  • participle: It is from the verb " sever " but it is past, passive, and adjectival, i.e. a perfective passive participle.
  • immunity: The objective is to confer some passive immunity to the agent that causes PMWS at the pig's most susceptible age.

Modifying Another Word

  • essentially: Even the many spectacular pictures generated from datasets available on the Web present an essentially passive view of what is happening.
  • purely: Aristotle assigned women ' a purely passive role in conception as incubators for the reproductive power of men ( 8 ).
  • merely: They are merely passive recipients of the shares or the money.
  • wholly: Although both mind and the sensory faculty receive their correlative forms when perceiving or thinking, neither is wholly passive in its defining activity.
  • relatively: Being out with the buggy was a relatively passive procedure.
  • totally: Fire and Earth Fire and Earth are friendly to each other, but while Fire is all action, Earth is totally passive.

Noun used with modifier

  • driver: Safe driver passive were bought by not yet being take a long-term.

Possessives

  • competition: Is this a ' live ' or ' passive ' competition?

Used with adjective complement

  • remain: He willingly follows the lead of other group members but remains passive when the work is being organized.
  • become: Networking power Candidates have become far less passive about making their own luck.

Preposition: in

  • face: One of the stereotypes resulting from this situation is that women are peace-loving and passive in the face of violence.

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