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:b : existing or occurring without being [[active]], open, or direct <passive [[support]]>
 
:b : existing or occurring without being [[active]], open, or direct <passive [[support]]>
 
*4 : of, relating to, or being [[business]] activity in which the investor does not actively [[participate]] in the generation of income
 
*4 : of, relating to, or being [[business]] activity in which the investor does not actively [[participate]] in the generation of income
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<center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Passivity''''', follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Passivity '''''this link'''''].</center>
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==Description==
 
==Description==
 
'''Passive''' [[voice]] is a [[grammatical]] voice common in many of the world's [[languages]]. Passive is used in a clause whose subject [[expresses]] the theme  or patient of the main verb. That is, the subject undergoes an [[action]] or has its state changed.  A sentence whose theme is marked as grammatical subject is called a passive sentence. In [[contrast]], a sentence in which the subject has the [[agent]] role is called an [[active]] sentence, and its verb is [[expressed]] in active voice. Many languages have both an active and a passive voice; this allows for greater [[flexibility]] in sentence construction, as either the [[semantic]] agent or patient may take the syntactic role of subject.
 
'''Passive''' [[voice]] is a [[grammatical]] voice common in many of the world's [[languages]]. Passive is used in a clause whose subject [[expresses]] the theme  or patient of the main verb. That is, the subject undergoes an [[action]] or has its state changed.  A sentence whose theme is marked as grammatical subject is called a passive sentence. In [[contrast]], a sentence in which the subject has the [[agent]] role is called an [[active]] sentence, and its verb is [[expressed]] in active voice. Many languages have both an active and a passive voice; this allows for greater [[flexibility]] in sentence construction, as either the [[semantic]] agent or patient may take the syntactic role of subject.

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