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middle voice
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middle voice, in grammar: see voice voice, grammatical category according to which an action is referred to as done by the subject (active, e.g., men shoot bears) or to the subject (passive, e.g., bears are shot by men). In Latin, voice is a category of inflection like mood or tense.
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He demonstrates how that struggle can be illuminated by examining the interactions of grammatical voice and the body at both the macrolevel and the microlevel of the narrative in her novels.
Using as the basis for his extensive analytic treatise, Professor Hardy draws upon three major essays he had written (and for the purpose of this book, re-written to make it a comprehensive and organized text) to present an innovative thesis with respect to O'Connor's use of grammatical voice and physical bodies in the texts of her novels.
Moreover, in Portuguese participial doublets of certain verbs appear in one or the other form, the selection being due to the grammatical voice used in respective cases, e.
 
 
 
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