Question 1

How do native speakers pronounce "passive" in English?

Accepted Answer

In natural English speech, "passive" appears in contexts such as: "I list below various of the tricks by means of which the work of prose construction is habitually dodged. The passive voice is wherever possible used in preference to the active, a bit of advice that has not one, but two passives to warn readers away from the passive. Well this self-contradiction tells us something.". You can listen to the exact timestamped audio clip in the accompanying video.

Question 2

Where can I hear "passive" used in a real sentence?

Accepted Answer

Our pronunciation database found 1 conversational video occurrences of "passive" with real-time synchronized transcripts and full surrounding sentence context.

How to pronounce “passive”(verb) in English

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