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Why make a text longer than necessary? Maybe Whatsapp Number List you don't have much experience with writing yet, or you think you come across as smart or interesting if you write woolly. Perhaps you have never consciously thought Whatsapp Number List about avoiding passive and redundant language, or you don't have a counter reader to point this out to you. Whichever group you fall under, the message of this article is: check your texts for passive Whatsapp Number List and woolly language. What is unnecessary can be omitted where possible. Check, check, check.
That is why I will discuss what Whatsapp Number List passive language is, and how you can detect and redirect it. I also share examples of woolly language, so that you can (continue to) write nice smooth texts. Passive language Whatsapp Number List Let's start with the basics. What is the difference between an active and passive sentence? It's actually quite simple: in an active sentence, the subject performs an action. For example: Elsemieke is putting the finishing Whatsapp Number List touches to an article. In this sentence 'Elsemieke' is the subject, and she 'is putting the finishing touches on a new article'. An active sentence.
If we make this sentence passive, it Whatsapp Number List becomes (for example): Elsemieke 's article is being finalized . In this sense it is not the person, Elsemieke, that is central, but the status of an action. So it's a passive sentence. We also Whatsapp Number List call this the 'passive form', because the direct object of the active sentence is the subject in the passive sentence. Just before the high school repetition: a direct object is the phrase to which the action of the Whatsapp Number List verb directly relates. In this example it works as follows: in the active sentence 'an article' is the direct object, because the verb 'lay' refers to this.