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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But, serious accidents can happen along the way when you use the passive voice .
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His prose is filled with active verbs and metaphors, instead of the passive voice and jargon frequently churned out by academics.
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In the passive voice the subject does not do the action: it suffers the action.
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Like most great rules, the rule against the passive voice has exceptions.
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This hypothesis requires further analysis of the passive voice before it can be considered confirmed however.