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Why do writers often strive to write using more active-voice verbs and fewer passive-voice vers?
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∙ 11y ago
Writers often prefer to use active-voice because it makes the sentence more engaging for the reader. It describes someone or something doing something, as opposed to something just being done.
Active voice is occasionally the only way a sentence may be constructed. Also, passive voice often makes sentences abnormally difficult to construct and read.
For example:
active: Fish live in the sea.
passive: no passive voice version because there is no subject. Fish live + (preposition)... you can't construct a passive equivalency.
active: I drove my car today!
passive: My car was driven by me today!
The passive voice makes the sentence very unwieldy, requiring a helping verb (was) not required in the active voice sentence. It adds extra words, and focuses on the object being acted upon, rather than whoever is performing the action.
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∙ 11y ago
Active voice makes writing more direct, engaging, and easier to understand by clearly showing who is performing the action. Passive voice can make sentences wordy, less dynamic, and can obscure the subject of the sentence. Overall, using active voice often results in clearer and more compelling writing.
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