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Sadee Posted 9 years ago
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The plan...

The plan must be told to her.
Is it right?
  

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It isn't exactly incorrect, but I think most people would prefer She must be told about the plan. CB

  • It isn't exactly incorrect, but I think most people would prefer She must be told about the plan.
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It isn't exactly incorrect, but I think most people would prefer She must be told about the plan.

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SadeeThe plan must be told to her. Is it right?
I'd say that 98% of the time native speakers would not use the passive voice where the agent is a pronoun.
They use the active voice, with the pronoun as a subject. The passive seems excessively awkward.

Avoid: The package was sent by him to me.
Better: He sent me the package.

Avoid:

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