Artificial intelligent assistant

Can the passive agent be gapped? Can the passive agent be gapped in a relative clause? I mean, can the head of a relative clause be the passive agent (the word that would be marked by )?

Yes, as long as the subject (patient) is animate.

> _the teacher I was scolded by_
> _the thief I had my wallet stolen by_
> _the rain I got caught in_ (indirect passive)

Note that, however, the core meaning of the Japanese passive is telling the subject's status being affected by others' action. Thus if you don't have intention to focus on the passive patient (like simply changing the subject), you should keep using the active voice.

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Passive with inanimate subject is a marginal usage in Japanese and doesn't have this perk. Usually they don't even mark the agent with .

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