| 41. | Wichita has no indirect speech or passive voice.
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| 42. | "In my case, " she said, switching to the passive voice, " there was no choice.
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| 43. | For example, if you suffer from too much passive voice, search your document for " is,"
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| 44. | The passive voice must yield to the active.
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| 45. | Agents ( or actors ) for verbs cast in the true passive voice can be omitted.
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| 46. | And, bless her, " she's always on me about using passive voice, instead of active ."
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| 47. | The passive voice may be used to circumvent the choice of the correct form of address.
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| 48. | For the layman _ passive voice would be : " The menorah was lit by father ."
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| 49. | *Meh, I don't like passive voice either.
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| 50. | Verbs may also take the passive voice.
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