Abstract:
The topic of the article under discussion is the active form of the verb in correlation with the meaning of voice. The English language is specific in this respect as there are cases when the active form of the verb does not indicate active voice. The meaning of voice depends on the meaning of the verb as a lexical unit because its grammatical marker is „zero”. Depending on the type of the verb, the meaning of the utterance can be active, passive, reflexive and reciprocal. Besides the lexical meaning of the verb one should take into consideration the type of the noun in the syntactical function of the grammatical subject. If it is animate, we understand that the voice is acive, if it is inanimate the conclusion we should come to is that the meaning of the voice is passive, as a thing cannot be the Agent of the action.
