Passive is an English word with synonyms like active or voice. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Passive meaning
- Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction.
- Taking no action.
- Being in the passive voice.
Synonyms of Passive
Using Passive
- The main meaning on this page is: Being subjected to an action without producing a reaction. | Taking no action. | Being in the passive voice.
- Useful related words include: active, voice, passive voice, nonviolent.
- In the example corpus, passive often appears in combinations such as: passive income, and passive, the passive.
Context around Passive
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 13 start, 6 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Passive
- In this selection, "passive" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, perfect, present, past, participle, voice and mode stand out and add context to how "passive" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include in the passive voice the and the perfect passive participle is. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "passive" sits close to words such as discharged, explored and freed, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with passive
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As always, the passive voice uses the perfect passive participle. (10 words)
This allowed us to analyze passive crowded, neutral and passive uncrowded within each size group. (15 words)
In the passive voice, the perfect passive participle is used with the auxiliary verb esse. (15 words)
Going into more details about the academic origins is beyond the scope of this article (you can find more about that in my ), so let me give you the clean definition of passive investing: passive investing means holding the market portfolio. (41 words)
But the group that had been exposed to passive smoking at home appeared to bear the entire risk increase, while those who were not exposed to passive smoking did not show any increased risk with increasing radon level. (38 words)
In verbs of types IV-VI, the 't' at the end of the stem is assimilated to the 'n': Present passive participle The present passive participle can be constructed from the 'past passive' form of the verb. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
In verbs of types IV-VI, the 't' at the end of the stem is assimilated to the 'n': Present passive participle The present passive participle can be constructed from the 'past passive' form of the verb.
Other linguists consider the second type to be a different kind of passive – a stative or static passive, in contrast to the dynamic or eventive passive illustrated by the first sentence.
They are in the present active, present passive, perfect active, perfect passive, future active and future passive.
Going into more details about the academic origins is beyond the scope of this article (you can find more about that in my ), so let me give you the clean definition of passive investing: passive investing means holding the market portfolio.
This allowed us to analyze passive crowded, neutral and passive uncrowded within each size group.
The MDB-1P Passive Direct Box, MDB-2P Stereo Passive Direct Box, MDB-1A Active Direct Box, and the MDB-USB USB Stereo Direct Box.
While passive mode prevented some griefing, players could still troll others by killing them repeatedly and then going passive so the victim had no way to retaliate.
Adversative passive Some languages, including several Southeast Asian languages, use a form of passive voice to indicate that an action or event was unpleasant or undesirable.
As always, the passive voice uses the perfect passive participle.
But the group that had been exposed to passive smoking at home appeared to bear the entire risk increase, while those who were not exposed to passive smoking did not show any increased risk with increasing radon level.
Faith is seen as passive, merely receiving Christ and all his benefits, among which benefits are the active and passive righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Further changes were introduced to the passive mode at that time, updating it to extended passive mode.
In the cartoon, a passive citizen is holding a spade and a wealthy landowning active citizen is ordering the passive citizens to go to work.
In the passive voice, the perfect passive participle is used with esse in the imperfect indicative.
In the passive voice, the perfect passive participle is used with the auxiliary verb esse.
Passive phase array Passive phased arrays typically use large amplifiers that produce all of the microwave transmit signal for the antenna.
Passive solar Passive solar windows allow light and solar energy into a building while minimizing air leakage and heat loss.
Passive -type constructions can be made using the auxiliary być or zostać ("become") with the passive participle.
Past passive The third-person past passive is formed with -che: mena/mena-ce/mena-che, "offers/offered/was offered".
Table of gestures and passive articulators and resulting places of articulation The following table shows the possible combinations of active and passive articulators.
Common combinations with passive
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- passive income 27×
- and passive 16×
- the passive 16×
- of passive 11×
- passive and 9×
- passive participle 8×
- passive voice 7×
- as passive 7×
- to passive 6×
- too passive 6×