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When do you use active voice?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

We usually speak in the active voice.

The workers pick the tea and pack it into boxes.

But if it is not necessary to know who did the action (verb) then the passive voice can be used.

The tea is picked and packed into boxes.

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