Active
Further information: Active voiceThe active voice is the most commonly used in many languages and represents the "normal" case, in which the subject of the verb is the agent.
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“Play is a major avenue for learning to manage anxiety. It gives the child a safe space where she can experiment at will, suspending the rules and constraints of physical and social reality. In play, the child becomes master rather than subject.... Play allows the child to transcend passivity and to become the active doer of what happens around her.”
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“Few, if any, creatures are equally active all night.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“How often must I repeat, that I know or am conscious of my own being; and that I myself am not my ideas, but somewhat else, a thinking, active principle that perceives, knows, wills, and operates about ideas?”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)