drive. A neat way to meet this desire is to use the mediopassive instead. The mediopassive looks like an active clause, but the subject is really the object, so it shows an action without an actor. This sentence reads well. English can use the mediopassive because it does not need to mark an active agent – unlike, say, French, which needs a reflexive pronoun. The mediopassive has grown in use over the past century, especially in ad copy, because it brings inert things to life. This butter melts on the tongue. This car handles like a dream.
