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  1. grammarly.com

    Dec 19, 2024Passive: Don't be fooled! Active: Don't allow anything to fool you! Creative uses of the passive voice. Sometimes, writers take advantage of the lack of clarity or shift in emphasis the passive voice provides for creative purposes. Here are some uses for the passive voice as a stylistic decision that suits the author's goals. Beating ...
  2. thewritelife.com

    Even as a full-time freelance writer, I have to admit: I don't remember much of the grammar lessons I learned in grade school. But when writing is your bread and butter (or even just your primary hobby), figuring out the most salient points of usage takes on a new importance — or, at least, feels more important than figuring it out just to pass a pop quiz.
  3. advice.writing.utoronto.ca

    When do I use passive voice? In some sentences, passive voice can be perfectly acceptable. You might use it in the following cases: The actor is unknown: The cave paintings of Lascaux were made in the Upper Old Stone Age. [We don't know who made them.] The actor is irrelevant: An experimental solar power plant will be built in the Australian ...
  4. Well said. A lot of this advice is damaging. "Don't use the passive voice" is a terrible piece of advice. "Don't use the passive voice poorly" is what it should be instead, but that's redundant - you shouldn't use any literary tool poorly. This piece of advice is given when they encounter a piece of writing with poorly used passive voice, and ...
  5. Spot passive voice. Passive voice involves making a compound verb by using the phrase "to be" or any of its conjugations. A sentence is also in the passive voice if the thing that is doing the verb is preceded by the prepositional phrase "by the" or "by a", or the thing doing the action may be completely eliminated.
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  6. owl.purdue.edu

    In scientific writing, however, passive voice is more readily accepted since using it allows one to write without using personal pronouns or the names of particular researchers as the subjects of sentences (see the third example above). ... Don't assume that just because there is a form of 'be' that the sentence is passive, however. Sometimes a ...
  7. justpublishingadvice.com

    Jul 8, 2024(Passive) Read the report and give me your reactions. (Imperative) You are requested to bring your laptop with you to the meeting. (Passive) Please bring your laptop with you to the meeting. (Imperative) 7. When to use the passive voice. You can't remove every occurrence of the passive voice all the time.
  8. writingcenter.unc.edu

    Summarizing history or literary plots with the passive voice: don't be a lazy thinker or writer! ... The rationale for using the passive voice in scientific writing is that it achieves "an objective tone"—for example, by avoiding the first person. To consider scientific writing, let's break it up into two main types: lab reports and ...
  9. justpublishingadvice.com

    Jul 22, 20241. The Passive vs the Active Form. Here is a very basic example of a simple sentence in active and passive forms. Active: Our manager canceled the meeting because of the train strike. Passive: The meeting was canceled due to a train strike. In the passive sentence, we do not know who canceled the meeting, but in the active sentence, we know it was the manager.
  10. yourdictionary.com

    Understanding when to use passive voice can make all the difference in your writing. Discover exactly when to use passive over active voice and why. ... (We don't know who donated it.) I was promoted to senior vice president. (It doesn't matter who promoted me.)
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