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1.1     ! root        1: A sentence is in the  passive  voice  when  its         grammatical
        !             2: subject         is the receiver of the action.
        !             3: 
        !             4:      PASSIVE: The ball was hit by the boy.
        !             5: 
        !             6: When the doer of the action in a sentence  is  the  subject,
        !             7: the sentence is        in the active voice.
        !             8: 
        !             9:      ACTIVE: The boy hit the ball.
        !            10: 
        !            11: The passive voice is sometimes needed
        !            12: 
        !            13:   1.  to emphasize the object of the sentence,
        !            14: 
        !            15:   2.  to vary the rhythm of the        text, or
        !            16: 
        !            17:   3.  to avoid naming an unimportant actor.
        !            18: 
        !            19:      EXAMPLE: The appropriations were approved.
        !            20: 
        !            21:      Although  passive sentences  are   sometimes   needed,
        !            22: psychological  research         has  shown  that they are harder to
        !            23: comprehend than         active  sentences.   Because  of  this  you
        !            24: should transform  as  many  of  your passives to actives as
        !            25: possible.  You can use the _s_t_y_l_e program to  find  all       your
        !            26: sentences   with  passive  verbs  in  them,  by         typing  the
        !            27: following command when this program is finished.
        !            28: 
        !            29:                     style -p filename

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