PASSIVE VOICE


Meaning of PASSIVE VOICE in English

noun

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But, serious accidents can happen along the way when you use the passive voice .

His prose is filled with active verbs and metaphors, instead of the passive voice and jargon frequently churned out by academics.

In the passive voice the subject does not do the action: it suffers the action.

Like most great rules, the rule against the passive voice has exceptions.

This hypothesis requires further analysis of the passive voice before it can be considered confirmed however.

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