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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Passive Voice

Should I avoid using a passive voice in an academic writing? I wrote a sentence like "this dissertation is required to adopt more than a theoretical preliminaries that can be integrated with each other in a theoretically-consistent manner."

But, in MS word 2011 for mac, there is a green underline below "can be integrated". In this regard, I am writing to request if anyone could explain what this is happening.

Many thanks for reading and answering this.
  

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Anonymous Should I avoid using a passive voice in an academic writing? You should avoid it to some extent, especially if there is a good way to say the same thing with active voice, but it is unavoidable in some circumstances and in others it actually sounds better. Software grammar and style checkers are robotic.

— CalifJim

  • Anonymous Should I avoid using a passive voice in an academic writing?
  • You should avoid it to some extent, especially if there is a good way to say the same thing with active voice, but it is unavoidable in some circumstances and in others it actually sounds better.
  • Software grammar and style checkers are robotic.
  • You can't expect them to give the best advice in every case.
  • As it turns out, there are other areas of your sentence that are more in need of improvement than that little passive phrase.
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AnonymousShould I avoid using a passive voice in an academic writing?
You should avoid it to some extent, especially if there is a good way to say the same thing with active voice, but it is unavoidable in some circumstances and in others it actually sounds better.

Software grammar and style checkers are robotic. You can't expect them to give the bes
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