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  2. Passive speaker (language) - Wikipedia

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    For example, around 10% of the Ainu people who speak the language are considered passive speakers. Passive speakers are often targeted in language revival efforts to increase the number of speakers of a language quickly, as they are likely to gain active and near-native speaking skills more quickly than those with no knowledge of the language.

  3. English passive voice - Wikipedia

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    Passive writing is not necessarily slack and indirect. Many famously vigorous passages use the passive voice, as in these examples with the passive verbs italicized: Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. (King James Bible, Isaiah 40:4.)

  4. Speaker types - Wikipedia

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    For example, around 10% of the Ainu people who speak the language are considered passive speakers. Passive speakers are often targeted in language revival efforts to increase the number of speakers of a language quickly, as they are likely to gain active and near-native speaking skills more quickly than those with no knowledge of the language.

  5. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    Passive vocabulary (also called receptive vocabulary) Vocabulary that students have heard and can understand, but do not necessarily use when they speak or write. Passive Opposite of active; the false assumption that the language skills of reading and listening do not involve students in doing anything but receiving information. Peer correction

  6. Behavioral communication - Wikipedia

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    This maladaptive problem-solving style keeps passive-aggressive communicators in a state of powerlessness, resulting in continued passive-aggression. [2] Examples of Passive-Aggressive Language/Behavior include wistful statements, backhanded compliments, purposefully ignoring or saying nothing, leaving someone out, sabotaging someone, and ...

  7. Language development - Wikipedia

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    The second, morphology, is the use of grammatical markers (indicating tense, active or passive voice etc.). Pragmatics involves the rules for appropriate and effective communication. Pragmatics involves three skills: using language for greeting, demanding etc., changing language for talking differently depending on who it is you are talking to;

  8. Passive voice - Wikipedia

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    A passive voice construction is a grammatical voice construction that is found in many languages. [1] 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. [2]

  9. Voice (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Passive marker is excluded in notional passive because the sentence relies on the hearer's common sense or their knowledge of the world. Thus, this passive voice is expressed implicitly. Furthermore, notional passive sentences can be representing either positive or negative meanings. Here is an example of notional passive: