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Category Archives: Passive voice

Passive avoidance

You may have been taught to avoid passive verbs. They have their place, however, and avoiding them mustn’t distort the meaning.

Posted byMike WilkinsonSeptember 24, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Passive voice, StyleTags:dunglish, engels, passivum2 Comments on Passive avoidance

By starting sentences like this…

… you are forced into a clumsy structure. Avoiding it lets you make the syntax snappier.

Posted byMike WilkinsonJune 17, 2020June 17, 2020Posted inAdvanced, Longwindedness, Passive voice, Style, Underused wordsTags:Door..., dunglish, engels, lijdende vorm, passivum3 Comments on By starting sentences like this…

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