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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt:... it is said to be in the Passive. Voice is the form of a verb which shows whether the subject of the sentence stands for the doer, or for the object, of the action expressed by the verb. The Active Voice is that form of a verb which shows that the subject of the sentence stands for the doer of the action expressed by the verb. The Passive Voice is that form of a verb which shows that the subject of the sentence stands for the object of the action expressed by the verb. The parts of the auxiliary verb be are used with the perfect participle of a transitive verb to form the passive voice: 'I am injured,' 'You were beaten,' 'He is captured,' 'They will be assisted,' 'We have been turned out' 83. The Verb 'be' with Intransitive Past Participles.--You may easily be misled by such forms as 'I am come,' 'You are arrived,' 'He is gone,' 'They are fallen,'and may mistake them for passive tenses, seeing that they are constructed in the same way as the passive tenses 'I am injured,' 'You are beaten,' He is captured.' Notice this important difference however. Injured, beaten, captured, are passive participles, and in combination with 'I am,' 'You are,' 'He is,' they form passive tenses. But come, arrived, gone, fallen, are participles of intransitive verbs, and therefore active participles (for intransitive verbs have no passive voice): hence, when combined with 'I am,' 'You are,' 'He is,' they form active tenses, and our idiom allows us to say either 'I have come,' 'You have arrived,' 'He has gone,' or 'I am come,' 'You are arrived,' 'He is gone.' 84. Only Transitive Verbs admit of a Passive use.--When a verb is »sed in the Passive voice, the subject of the verb represents the object of the action. But Intransitive verbs take no object in the Active voice: there...