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What are passives?

What are passives? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of passive
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Analysis of the alternation between impersonal reflexives and reflexive passives in Spanish shows that higher animacy makes an argument less marked as an object.
Russian, for example, does not morphosyntactically distinguish between middle constructions and passives.
Topics include ergativity and voice in Mayan languages, passives in Cavinena, the detransitive voice in Kryz, and undergoer orientation in Movima, among other topics.
Have you ever read something that assiduously avoids all passives and progressives?
But readies for does not occur at all, and the six occurrences of readied for are all passives.
However, in the attempt to pace up with this evolution, thinner on-chip metals and dielectrics have a troubling effect on the Q factor of on-chip passives.

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