Sentence examples for thing acted upon from inspiring English sources
As he sees its, God is the immediate cause of a first thing acted upon and a cause through mediation of the effects of the first thing acted upon and so on.
In the past, they had hanged the bandit". To get these right, you don't even have to know that transitive verbs are ones that take objects (that is, in which one thing acts upon another) and intransitive verbs take no objects (that is, things just act).
Such explanations may take three forms [ 13]. (i) Causal explanations deal with phenomena where one thing acts upon another: e.g. where the force of gravity acts upon an apple to make it fall to the ground.
I often sum it up as "the thing being acted upon". Intransitive verbs don't take objects.
The thing being acted upon, the coffee, is the object of the verb "made". Now consider: "The coffee was made by Barb". Here the coffee is still the thing being made.
The things we need to change, to solve, to do, to act upon!
Particularly because these things could be acted upon and be used to harm the people being targeted.
It is noted that the semantic development of 'agency' has been considerably shaped by association with 'agent', which is defined, most generally, as a "person who or thing which acts upon someone or something; one who or that which exerts power; the doer of an action".
In other words, intuition happens only in the midst of the dialectical process of acting upon and in turn being acted upon by things.
On the other hand, each particular thing is determined to act and to be acted upon by other particular things.
By contrast, the feeling of dependence corresponds to Receptivity and is the feeling of being acted upon by things in the world (say, being affected by the food one eats or helped by fellow human beings).
