passive implies immobility or lack of normally expected response to an external force or influence and often suggests deliberate submissiveness or self-control.

The passive voice is a way of writing or speaking that uses passive verbs. The sentence “The house was destroyed by the tornado” is written in the passive voice.

'Catrin told me' is an active sentence, and 'I was told by Catrin' is passive. In a passive sentence, the subject is the person or thing affected by the action of the verb.

If you describe someone as passive, you mean that they do not take action but instead let things happen to them.

Used to describe a form of verb in which the grammatical subject is the object of the action, for example, the sentence “The government took steps.” in the passive would be Steps were …

A passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. [1] In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject expresses the theme or patient of …

Definition of passive adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.