The easiest way to spot passive voice is to look for state-of-being verbs and often the wordby. And the best way I know to teach this is by example. Passive Voice Misuse Passive: The party was planned by Jill. Active: Jill planned the party. Passive: The wedding cake was created by...
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The only times you can use the passive voice is when it’s essential to highlight the action instead of who’s doing it. Example: The car was driven by her son (passive). Her son drove the car (active). You can use an advanced grammar checker to correct passive sentences in your ...
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The next step, of course, is to actually write your piece. John Steinbeckadvised, Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. ...
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Hi Chris. Exclamation marks, like guns, are tools to be used very judiciously. But I would not make the draconian pronouncement that they should never be used (otherwise, why do they exist?). I think Olivier is right when he says used sparingly, and only in dialogue, is correct. ...