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The passive voice Posted by on Jun 3, 2014

Let’s talk about the passive tense, an often disparaged and misunderstood verb tense in English. The passive tense is a grammatical construction used in writing and speaking. It is a verb tense, but is also often called a “voice.”  When the passive tense is used the noun or noun phrase (which is the object in…

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