Passive voice is also helpful when writing patent disclosure, because active voice may inadvertently restrict the scope to the named actors.
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I've often observed that people with a victim mentality habitually use the passive voice to relate how life happens to them.
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Evidence can be found in every episode of Judge Judy
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What you did in that last paragraph was seen by me.
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Passive voice is different from nonviolent.
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Is resistance EVER passive?
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Use the passive voice when the agent of the verb is unknown or unimportant. http://nottrivialbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Passive-voice-and-expletive-constructions.pdf …
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Love how you close out this piece
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You obviously didn't read the article.
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Words and its rules...
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