 Finally, it can occasionally be used in a causative sense, such as "The father causes his son to be set free", or "The father ransoms his son".In English there is no verb form for the middle voice, though some uses may be classified by traditional grammarians as middle voice, often resolved via a reflexive pronoun, as in "Fred shaved", which may be expanded to "Fred shaved himself" – contrast with active "Fred shaved John" or passive "John was shaved by Fred".This need not be reflexive, as in "my clothes soaked in detergent overnight".