Active vs. Passive Voice

[Brierley, Sean]

It's not always wrong to write in the passive voice.

Training and education are the only approaches.

You can search on forms of the verb "to be" to find use of the passive
voice.

Cheers,

Sean 

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From: techwr-l-bounces+sean.brierley=ipc.com at lists.techwr-l.com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+sean.brierley=ipc.com at lists.techwr-l.com] On
Behalf Of Michelle Vina-Baltsas
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:48 AM
To: techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
Subject: Active vs. Passive Voice

Anyone have any tips to prevent from writing in the passive voice? 


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