Pseudopassive (other)
Pseudopassive or pseudo-passive may refer to: * Impersonal passive voice, a grammatical form that deletes the subject of an intransitive verb * Prepositional passive, a form of English passive voice in which the object of a preposition becomes the subject of a clause See also * Passive voice, a grammatical form in which an object becomes a subject * Passive (other) Passive may refer to: * Passive voice, a grammatical voice common in many languages, see also Pseudopassive (other), Pseudopassive * Passive language, a language from which an interpreter works * Passivity (behavior), the condition of su ...

Impersonal Passive Voice
The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero. Dixon, R. M. W. & Alexandra Aikhenvald (1997). "A Typology of Argument-Determined Constructions". In Bybee, Joan, John Haiman, & Sandra A. Thompson (eds.) ''Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón''. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 71–112. The impersonal passive deletes the subject of an intransitive verb. In place of the verb's subject, the construction instead may include a syntactic placeholder, also called a '' dummy''. This placeholder has neither thematic nor referential content. (A similar example is the word "there" in the English phrase "There are three books.") In some languages, the deleted argument can be reintroduced as an '' oblique argument'' or ''complement''. Test of unergative verbs In most languages that allow impersonal passives, only unergative verbs may undergo impersonal passivization. Unaccusativ ...
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Prepositional Passive
The passive voice in English is a grammatical voice whose syntax is marked by a subject followed by a stative verb complemented by a past participle. For example: :The enemy was defeated. :Caesar was stabbed. In each instance of a passive voice construction, the subject denotes the recipient of the action (the patient) rather than the performer (the agent). The agent may be omitted as evinced in the examples above, or it may be included adjunctively as follows: :The enemy was defeated ''by our troops''. :Caesar was stabbed ''by Brutus''. Conversely, an active voice construction of the foregoing examples yields the following analogues: :Our troops defeated the enemy. :Brutus stabbed Caesar. A form of the verbs ''be'' or ''get'' typically comprises the stative aspect of the English passive voice construction, and the pertinent passive participle is sometimes called a ''passive verb''. English allows a number of passive constructions that are not possible in many of the other la ...
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Passive Voice
A passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. In a clause with passive voice, the grammatical subject expresses the ''theme'' or ''patient'' of the main verb – that is, the person or thing that undergoes the action or has its state changed. This contrasts with active voice, in which the subject has the agent role. For example, in the passive sentence "The tree was pulled down", the subject (''the tree'') denotes the patient rather than the agent of the action. In contrast, the sentences "Someone pulled down the tree" and "The tree is down" are active sentences. Typically, in passive clauses, what is usually expressed by the object (or sometimes another argument) of the verb is now expressed by the subject, while what is usually expressed by the subject is either omitted or is indicated by some adjunct of the clause. Thus, turning an active sense of a verb into a passive sense is a valence-decreasing process ("detransitivizi ...
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