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ACTIVE (VOICE)

Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language | 1998 | | Â© Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

ACTIVE (VOICE). See PASSIVE (VOICE), VERB, VOICE.

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