Greek – Voice

▪︎ Active Voice (subject produces the action)
– Simple Active.
– Causative Active.

▪︎ Middle Voice (subject participates in the results)
– Direct Middle.
– Indirect Middle.
– Permissive Middle.
– Reciprocal Middle.

▪︎ Passive Voice (subject receives the action)
– With Direct Agent.
– With Intermediate Agent.
– With Impersonal Agent.

▪︎ Person and Number (relates to speaker or writer)
– 1st Person – Speaker is Acting.
– 2nd Person – Speaker is talking to the one acting.
– 3rd Person – Relates to someone other than the speaker or the person being spoken to.
– Verb agrees with its subject in person and number (rule of concord).

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