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Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Diction
The verb "died" is passive in that it removes causality from the sentence and treats the grammatical subject of the sentence as the logical object. The subject may, from a grammatical viewpoint, "actively" die. However, one who "actively" dies (grammatically) suffers from the cessation of bodily function that characterizes his dying. The action, in which he plays no part, operates on him. The true cause of this operation (be it illness or homicide) does not appear in the construct. Therefore, it is indeed correct to call "to die" a passive verb (semantically, by comparison with "to kill"). -- Michael Safyan 21:01, 21 May 2007 (UTC)