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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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