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- noun US the process of
passivizing a sentence
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Also, languages allow things like passivization -- for instance, you can say John broke the window or The window was broken by John.
Archive 2010-07-01 GamesWithWords 2010
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Also, languages allow things like passivization -- for instance, you can say John broke the window or The window was broken by John.
Universal meaning GamesWithWords 2010
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