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Mind Map by Rodrigo Carrasco, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rodrigo Carrasco
about 7 years ago
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Passive Voice
- Passive voice is used when the focus is on the action
- It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.
- My dog was stolen.
- My dog was stolen.
- It is not important or not known, however, who or what is performing the action.
- Sometimes a statement in passive is more polite than active voice
- A mistake was made.
- makes your writing stronger, more direct,
- A mistake was made.
- A letter + was written + by Rachel
- In a passive voice construction, the grammatical subject of the clause receives the action of the verb.
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