![]() 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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