For instance, say I have two individuals and one is active, the other passive. I know I can call the active person the "actor"—he "acts upon" the passive person. But what do I call the "acted upon"? Is there a single word to describe this?
Learn English – word for something that gets “acted upon”
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Best Answer
The term is Patient, which is formed from the same semi-deponent Latin verb (patior, patere, passus 'suffer, endure') as Passive. Most grammatical terminology comes from Latin, so if you want to make up a linguistic term, get a Latin dictionary.
In a prototypical English active transitive sentence,
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