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In academic writing you want to avoid using a personal voice, such as I and me, as much as you can. You also want to avoid using a passive voice. Examples of this are: has been, have been, is ---ing, should.
Active voice is indirect, unnatural, and forceful.
1. Not all verbs can be used in a passive form. 2. Passive is usually used without the 'actor' of the sentence and this is not always suitable. Passive doesn't have to be avoided you just need to use passive forms at the right time.
1. Not all verbs can be used in a passive form. 2. Passive is usually used without the 'actor' of the sentence and this is not always suitable. Passive doesn't have to be avoided you just need to use passive forms at the right time.
1. Not all verbs can be used in a passive form. 2. Passive is usually used without the 'actor' of the sentence and this is not always suitable. Passive doesn't have to be avoided you just need to use passive forms at the right time.
Active voice: "John attended school." Passive voice: "The school was attended by John." Passive voice: "Jane was helped by John." Active voice: "John helped Jane." In active voice, the subject of the sentence usually comes first and is doing the action to something else. In passive voice, the predicate is being acted upon by the subject. Passive voice tends to be harder to read , and it tends to use more words. So for the most part, you should avoid using passive voice.
The same way it is formed in English - Il a été agressé - He was attacked.However, the French tend to try to avoid using the passive voice, instead preferring to use the impersonal pronoun on. So using the above example: On l'a agressé.
Passive voice uses is or are to convey the message. She is listening to music is a passive voice sentence using this phrase.
preferable
In active voice: The boy broke the window. In Passive voice: The window was broken by the boy.
Avoid passive voice.
The passive voice of ''what do you do'' is "what is done by you?"