The project team will discuss the report (or 'Management will discuss the project team's report'). There will be a discussion of the report by the project team. The process has been changed by the board. See if you can use one of the methods above to identify the active and passive voices. Here are some examples of passive voice changed to active voice. Hemingway Editor is a free online tool that will highlight your passive sentences. If you enable it (by going to the File > Options > Proofing menu) it will highlight passive voice as you write. If you struggle to identify the voice of a verb, try using a grammar checker like the one built into Microsoft Word. ‘The press release was sent at 6pm yesterday.’ Passive voice is fine because either it’s obvious that the communications team sent or, or our readers don’t need to know. When the agent is obvious or your readers really don’t need to know who it is ‘Over 100 contaminants have been dumped into the river.’ Passive voice is appropriate because we don’t know who has done this. To de-emphasise an unknown or unimportant agent ‘100 votes are required to pass the bill.’ The passive voice emphasises the number of votes. There are three main reasons for choosing the passive over the active voice. In this example, ‘was’ is the auxilliary verb, and ‘approved’ is the past participle. Note that the tense (past, present, future) of the auxilliary verb is not relevant.
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