Scientists can often manage
the passive voice while not being able to use present, past, and future tenses in conversation.
The inflammable and defenseless utterances of the AGF are therefore not surprising; which explains why English Language professors also hold that liars use
passive voice while truth tellers use active voice.»
I set up time to meet with someone, tell them the feedback in
a passive voice while caveating it heavily, and then congratulate myself on having had the hard conversation.
Not exact matches
Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing
passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school
while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no
voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?
While editing essay analyze the usage of the
passive voice.
And
while longtime fans may find Sam's new
voice to be a bit jarring (if not a little too
passive and lacking in personality), his character is pleasantly convincing.
Oh, better transmission length than I thought: «For comparison,
while single - line,
voice - grade copper systems longer than a couple of kilometers require in - line signal repeaters for satisfactory performance; it is not unusual for optical systems to go over 100 kilometers (62 mi), with no active or
passive processing.»
While you may have locked these memories away into the «lessons we'll never use as adults» category (right alongside anything advanced algebra and anything other than the most rudimentary biology assignments) it turns out that identifying and eliminating the
passive voice can make a big difference in your job - hunting prospects as an adult.
While the following is not always the case, one way to look for
passive voice is past tense of «to be» verbs.
You can not do that
while using the
passive voice.
While you can use spelling and grammar checker programs, you should also proofread the document yourself since spelling and grammar checkers don't always pick up on all mistakes, such as usage of
passive voice rather than active
voice.