active voice
Noun
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The voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb (synset 113825370)
"`The boy threw the ball' uses the active voice"is a type of: voice - (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotessame as: active
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