Voice (grammar) - List

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Voices found in various languages include:

  • Active voice
  • Adjutative voice
  • Antipassive voice
  • Applicative voice
  • Causative voice
  • Circumstantial voice
  • Impersonal passive voice
  • Mediopassive voice
  • Middle voice
  • Passive voice
  • Pseudo-passive
  • Reciprocal voice (subject and object perform the verbal action to each other, e. g. She and I cut each other's hair)
  • Reflexive voice (the subject and the object of the verb are the same, as in I cut my hair)

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