Just looking up passive verbs and noticed this:
The subject of a sentence can be "The Subject" as well as "The object". I mean that we normally associate subjectivity to be that quality of humans that makes them the "centre of the universe" to which things happen and who is the "end in themselves" to quote Kant.
Yet the sentence "Alva broke the window" place me in the subject place and the window in teh object place. Yet it can easily be rewritten placing the point of view and purpose on the window: "the window was broken by Alva". This is tyranny of the narrative where subjectivity gets side lined by the importance of the window (a mere physical object).
Just a nuance I had missed before.
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