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Allen & Greenough · Part Second — Syntax › The Sentence

§275. Object

When a transitive verb is changed from the Active to the Passive voice, the Direct Object becomes the Subject and is put in the Nominative case:—

  • Active: pater fīlium vocat, the father calls his son.
  • Passive: fīlius ā patre vocātur, the son is called by his father.
  • Active: lūnam et stellās vidēmus, we see the moon and the stars.
  • Passive: lūna et stellae videntur, the moon and stars are seen (appear).

J. H. Allen and J. B. Greenough, New Latin Grammar (Boston: Ginn, 1903). Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.