middle voice

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• The proposal of the middle voice elicits a strong negative reaction from David, so the scribe demonstrates an approximation of the middle voice with a parable: about Bronwyn the Brown Witch who can do anything at all.

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• The narrator proposes using the "middle voice" for Dulcie's story (197), and in fact does use it with increasing frequency in the novel's closing chapters.

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• Later examples of the middle voice perform this work more pointedly.

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• Do this in the middle voice in F major, descending on a five-note pattern starting on C.

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• Thus, as with the conspicuous middle voice, the novel's conclusion makes explicit the crisis of agency and representation inherent in a tale as damaging and damaged as David's story.

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• The middle voice is, if you will, the syntactic equivalent of the palimpsest, drawing attention to that which has been erased and excluded and to the conundrums of telling.

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• The proposal of the middle voice elicits a strong negative reaction from David, so the scribe demonstrates an approximation of the middle voice with a parable: about Bronwyn the Brown Witch who can do anything at all.

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• While singing the vowel "ah" on a pitch in the middle voice (e.g., G below middle C for men, an octave up for women), have them gradually lean back in their chairs while gently pushing off with their legs, eventually lifting the front legs of their chairs off the ground.

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• In Greek grammar, the middle voice indicates when the subject both performs and receives the action of the verb.

• In studying verb forms, students often learn about the middle voice to understand how subjects can act upon themselves.

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