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"Passive voice" is the term used for constructions in which the subject of the verb is the patient of its action.
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Why do native speaker tend to use passive voice?
The passive voice can be used in English for a number of reasons, some of which have been mentioned already.
1) To emphasize the "patient" (the object becomes the subject). In my opening sentence fo …
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