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* perfect has suffix – ī and no perfect passive participle.
=> " Afyonkarahisar-from / citizen of-transform-transformed into ( makes the previous suffix passive )- not-be able -( future tense )-( plural )- we-among -( question )- are you?
* an agentive case suffix mainly used for the agent in passive clauses

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Placing missiles in submarines, on barges, railroads, highways, surface vessels and in the air provides them with passive protection by taking advantage of the gravest weakness of long-range ballistic missiles today -- the extreme difficulty of destroying a mobile or moving target with such weapons.
As on Flight 93, crew members and passengers now have to calculate the risks of passive cooperation, not only for themselves but also for those on the ground.
The water entry activates the torpedo, which is guided by its own sonar system, and homes in on the target using either active sonar or passive sonar.
Blind people had, in her opinion, grown so accustomed to waiting on others as to be passive and ' whiney.
The passive attack allows a suitably equipped attacker to eavesdrop on communications and spoof, if the attacker was present at the time of initial pairing.
The political leaders preferred a more passive approach for the time being, including more peaceful relations with Austria and concentrating on strengthening Serbia for future struggle, but some of the military officers grew impatient with the more moderate radical policies.
Modern citizenship is much more passive ; action is delegated to others ; citizenship is often a constraint on acting, not an impetus to act.
According to this viewpoint, citizens are sovereign, morally autonomous beings with duties to pay taxes, obey the law, engage in business transactions, and defend the nation if it comes under attack, but are essentially passive politically, and their primary focus is on economic betterment.
Based on passive cable theory one can track how changes in a neuron ’ s dendritic morphology changes the membrane voltage at the soma, and thus how variation in dendrite architectures affects the overall output characteristics of the neuron.
Web-based international educational software is under development by students at New York University, based on the belief that current educational institutions are too rigid: effective teaching is not routine, students are not passive, and questions of practice are not predictable or standardized.
As a result, the students begin to take on more of a passive role in their education as they are forced to meet and learn such standards and information.
In the first ' be ' is part of the progressive aspect, used with "- ing " on the verb, and in the second it is part of the passive, as indicated by the perfect participle of a transitive verb.
By encouraging clarity on the active subject that " does " or wants or believes something, and disallowing passive constructions about the state of affairs ( a common use of " to be "), E-Prime makes it more difficult to hide assumptions in statements about The Other or equivalent constructions such as " they " or " most people " or " the public " or " the taxpayer ".
" Laura Mulvey's germinal essay " Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema " ( written in 1973 and published in 1975 ) expands on this conception of the passive role of women in cinema to argue that film provides visual pleasure through scopophilia, and identification with the on-screen male actor.
The technology stacks several ( three or four ) active FPGA dice side-by-side on a silicon interposer – a single piece of silicon that carries passive interconnect.
They were considered " passive " citizens ; forced to rely on men to determine what was best for them in the government.
* Information on the " active " and " passive " panels may be used for constructing commands on the command line.
In fact Hitler had a narrow range of interests and decision making was diffused among overlapping, feuding power centers ; on some issues he was passive, simply assenting to pressures from whomever had his ear.
A mechanical vector picks up an infectious agent on the outside of its body and transmits it in a passive manner.
The term " junk science " was popularized by Fox News commentator Steven Milloy, who used it to attack the results of credible scientific research on global warming, ozone depletion, passive smoking and many other topics.
Examples are rotary drives applying centrifugal forces for the fluid transport on the passive chips.
Alternatively, the name may derive from the verb na · ṣar, נ ָ צ ַ ר, " watch, guard, keep ," and understood either in the sense of " watchtower " or " guard place ", implying the early town was perched on or near the brow of the hill, or, in the passive sense as ' preserved, protected ' in reference to its secluded position.
The passive place of articulation is the place on the more stationary part of the vocal tract where the articulation occurs.

passive and verb
* The case also shows the agent when used with the passive voice of the verb.
When the verb is active, the nominative is the person or thing doing the action ( agent ); when the verb is passive, the nominative is the person or thing receiving the action.
Transforming an active verb into a passive verb is a valence-decreasing process (" detransitivizing process "), because it transforms transitive verbs into intransitive verbs.
In some languages, such as Latin, passive voice is indicated by verb conjugation.
A way to identify a transitive verb is to invert the sentence, making it passive.
* The passive conjugation: the Sorani passive morpheme-r -/- ra-corresponds to-y -/- ya-in Gorani and Zazaki, while Kurmanji employs the auxiliary verb, come ;
In languages that have a passive voice, a transitive verb in the active voice becomes intransitive in the passive voice.
Some languages such as Dutch have an impersonal passive voice that allows for the passivization of an intransitive verb that does not have a prepositional phrase.
In languages with ergative – absolutive alignment, the passive voice ( where the object of a transitive verb becomes the subject of an intransitive verb ) does not make sense, because the noun associated with the intransitive verb is marked as the object, not as the subject.
In the context of a nominative – accusative language like English, this promotion is nonsensical because intransitive verbs don't take objects, they take subjects, and so the subject of a transitive verb (" I " in I hug him ) is also the subject of the intransitive passive construction ( I was hugged by him ).
Therefore, this is not the same as passive voice, where an intransitive verb phrase appears, but there is an implicit agent ( which can be made explicit using a complement phrase ):
Not all languages have a passive voice, and some that do have one ( e. g. Polish ) don't allow the indirect object of a ditransitive verb to be promoted to subject by passivization, as English does.
The passive voice is indicated by the insertion of ถ ู ก ( thuk, ) before the verb.
From the word σοφός ( sophos ) is derived the verb σοφίζω ( sophizdo ), which means " to instruct or make learned ," but which in the passive voice means " to become or be wise ," or " to be clever or skilled in a thing.

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Wearing a handkerchief on the left side of the body typically indicates one is a " top " ( one considered active in the practice of the fetish indicated by the color of the handkerchief ), while wearing it on the right side of the body would indicate one is a " bottom " ( one considered passive in the practice of the fetish indicated by the color of the handkerchief ).
These steps are significant as the language indicates a change from passive reconnaissance of enemy warships and submarines, to an active directive which involved the attack of the vessels by Coastal Command aircraft.
It is characterised by an obstructionist or hostile manner that indicates aggression, or, in more general terms, expressing aggression in non-assertive, subtle ( i. e. passive or indirect ) ways.
The Independent reported that Heartland's receipt of donations from Exxon and Philip Morris indicates a " direct link "..." between anti-global warming sceptics funded by the oil industry and the opponents of the scientific evidence showing that passive smoking can damage people's health.
Second symbol ( if present ): the single letter " R " indicates that there is a simple ( passive ) reflector on one side of the array.

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