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2. Passive voice - Wikipedia

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   The active voice is the dominant voice used in English. Many commentators, notably George Orwell in his essay "Politics and the English Language" and Strunk & White in The Elements of Style, have urged minimizing use of the passive voice, but this is almost always based on these commentators' misunderstanding of what the passive voice is. [8]

3. Voice (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The active voice is the most commonly used in many languages and represents the "normal" case, in which the subject of the verb is the agent. In the active voice, the subject of the sentence performs the action or causes the happening denoted by the verb. Sentence (1) is in active voice, as indicated by the verb form saw.

4. English passive voice - Wikipedia

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   The English passive voice is used less often than the active voice, [3] but frequency varies according to the writer's style and the given field of writing. Contemporary style guides discourage excessive use of the passive voice but generally consider it to be acceptable in certain situations, such as when the patient is the topic of the ...

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   The United States maintains a unique credit scoring framework. Other countries use different scoring systems, so you need to start fresh if you move internationally. The financial habits that help ...

6. Active voice - Wikipedia

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   Active voice is a grammatical voice prevalent in many of the world's languages. It is the default voice for clauses that feature a transitive verb in nominative–accusative languages, including English and most Indo-European languages. In these languages, a verb is typically in the active voice when the subject of the verb is the doer of the ...

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   The ex-wife of NHL star Evander Kane has publically revealed herself as one of Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs earliest sexual assault accusers on Friday. Anna Kane, who was married to the Edmonton Oilers ...

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   Federico Arellano is a U.S. citizen and says three of his four children are too. He says the situation is a misunderstanding and that his family was misled before being deported.

9. Object–verb–subject word order - Wikipedia

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   The passive voice in English may appear to be in the OVS order, but that is not an accurate description. In an active voice sentence like Sam ate the oranges, the grammatical subject, Sam , is the agent and is acting on the patient , the oranges , which are the object of the verb, ate .