单词 | indirect passive |
释义 | > as lemmasindirect passive indirect passive phr. a passive verb having for its subject the indirect object of the active voice, as I was told it; he was refused admittance; the mayor is given power and authority (see give v. 2); also, a passive voice formed on an intransitive verb construed with a preposition, the prepositional object becoming the subject of the passive verb, while the preposition becomes adverbial, as they have spoken to him, he has been spoken to; many run after her, she is much run after.extracted from indirectadj.< as lemmas |
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