Sentences with phrase «passive voice phrases»

This app does not detect the passive voice phrases.

Not exact matches

The passive voice of the telling phrase «mistakes were made» shows the rationalization process at work.

This resource includes 100 cards that cover the following topics: * Types of nouns, * Adjectives, verbs, prepositions, pronouns, determiners and conjunctions, * Singular and plural, * Comparative and superlative adjectives, * Adjective phrases, * Past and present tense, * Complements and link verbs, * Active and passive voice, * Auxiliary and main verbs, * Adverbial phrases, * Coordinating and subordinating conjunctions, * Questions, statements, exclamations and commands, * Subject and verb agreement, * Simple and complex sentences, * Narrative voice, * Negative and positive sentences, * Direct and reported speech,... and more!

There is a wide array of choices that focus students on clarity, power, variety, and economy, including wordiness, passive voice, fragments, prepositional phrases, verbs, pronouns, and modifiers.

KS2 English Skills Revision Series Two contains worksheets on: • Noun phrases • Clauses: co-ordinating conjunctions, subordination • Relative pronouns • Relative clauses • Verbs: present tense, past tense, progressive, present progressive, past progressive, present perfect • Modal verbs • Parenthesis - brackets • Parenthesis - dashes • Synonyms • Antonyms • Ellipsis • Subject, verb, object • Punctuation • Verbs, active and passive voice • Colon • Semicolon • Hyphenated words • Bullet points • Verb or noun • Nouns and adjectives • Words with more than one meaning • Adverbs • Adverbials • Fronted adverbials NOTE In this approach to English grammar at KS2 we have followed closely the model of grammar adopted by the English National Curriculum.

After reading 1,000 cases as a first year law student — most of which were written in the stuffiest, densest legalese imaginable — my writing started to morph into what I was seeing everyday: passive voice, unnecessary Latin phrases, way - too - long sentences, etc..

WordRake made no mention of the paragraph's frequent use of the passive voice and suggested a crisper edit to the «absence of» phrase, changing «in the absence of any of the considerations» to «absent the considerations.»

For the phrases «are persuaded,» «be taken,» «is sustained,» «are overruled» and «is remanded,» BriefCatch suggested changing all from the passive to the active voice.

Let's remove the nominalizations, wordy phrases, and passive voice:

The passive voice is where the object comes before the verb and these sentences are usually easy to spot because they're typically longer than active voice phrases.

A big part of that process is scanning the draft of your cover letter for passive voice and cheesy, trite or dull words and phrases, then rewording or removing them before hitting send on an email to a prospective employer.

I'm sure you already know the passive voice is to be avoided when writing your resume, but so is going too far the other way with over-the-top phrases.