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Hbrour Posted 14 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Passive voice to active voice

It has come to my attention that I write my statement in the passive voice all to often. I would to know how to convert such statement to the active voice. I only took the required English classes in college, therefore I am a novice when comes to diction. Here is an example of one my statements written in the passive voice:

"Society is predicated on peace."
  

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Hbrour Society is predicated on peace. The beauty of the passive is that the actor need not be named. " People predicate society on peace.

— Avangi

  • Hbrour Society is predicated on peace.
  • The beauty of the passive is that the actor need not be named.
  • " People predicate society on peace.
  • But judging from what you've written, you'd probably consider this a dumb thing to say.
  • Having a broad knowledge of your subject matter, you should be able to come up with a more comprehensive description of the actor (the thing or things or person or people who do the predicating).
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HbrourSociety is predicated on peace.
The beauty of the passive is that the actor need not be named.
When there's absolutely no context to give us a clue as to who or what is doing the "predicating," we typically say "People do it!"

People predicate society on peace.

But judging from what you've written, you'd
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Here is the entire paragraph that exampe appeared in:

Here's a another good quote from Ludwig von Mises, "Peace and not war is the father of all things. " It's a mystery, but somehow men were able establish society despite the fact that men have an innate distrust for each other. Had that distrust not somehow been overcome, civilization would have never existed. Men came together and foun
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