Adjutative voice
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The adjutative voice is a
grammatical voice In linguistics, grammaticality is determined by the conformity to language usage as derived by the grammar of a particular speech variety. The notion of grammaticality rose alongside the theory of generative grammar, the goal of which is to form ...
carrying the meaning "to help to". The subject of a verb in the adjutative voice is not an
agent Agent may refer to: Espionage, investigation, and law *, spies or intelligence officers * Law of agency, laws involving a person authorized to act on behalf of another ** Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insuranc ...
of the action denoted by the verb, but assists the (unstated) agent in performing the action.


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* {{grammar-stub Grammatical voices