passivized
past simple and past participle ofpassivize
passivize
verb[T]
languagespecialized(UKusuallypassivise)uk/ˈpæs.ɪ.vaɪz/us/ˈpæs.ɪ.vaɪz/tochangeaverborsentenceinto thepassive
Linguistics: verb forms, tenses & types of verbs
- accusative
- art
- bare infinitive
- bent
- continuous
- infinitive
- non-progressive
- passive
- passivization
- pluperfect
- present
- present participle
- progressive
- subjunctive
- the active voice
- the first person
- the future perfect
- the past continuous
- the past tense
- the present continuous
Examplesofpassivized
passivized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Thispassivizedverb form is boiled is infelicitous if it describes the natural process of water boiling.
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The fact that the reflexive cannot bepassivizedlends further support to the claim that it is not a real object.
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The verb could be finite or non-finite, but it had to be intransitive (thereby eliminating transitive clauses with object gaps) or apassivizedtransitive.
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Both languages allow the impersonalization of apassivizedtransitive (but not of apassivizedintransitive, since they disallow the impersonalization of non-transitives in general).
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Apassivizedpredicate may then be subjectless if it contains no terms, or none that satisfy the conditions imposed on subjects at large.
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The scarcity of such data, and the fact that mostpassivizedunaccusatives have stative meanings or denote events that do not have an identifiable causer, considerably weakens the hypothesis.
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V must be intransitive orpassivizedtransitive.
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Besides the above, unergative verbs differ from unaccusative verbs in the fact that, in some languages, they can bepassivizedto a limited extent.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Both intransitive and transitive may be grammaticallypassivizedto show capacity, in place of compounding with the modal "akv" to be able.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Furthermore, both intransitive and transitive verbs may be grammaticallypassivizedto show physical/psychological incapacity, usually in negative sentences.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A reduced relative clause, in this casepassivized.
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