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Active vs. Passive Weak vs. power VOICE Active vs. Passive Weak vs. power

VOICE The writer’s voice is the individual writing style of an author, a combination of idiotypical usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text (or across several works).

Example: Frederik backman

Example: ernest Hemingway

Active voice: When the subject of the sentence Does something The man hid the dirty laundry. The dog ate the food.

Passive VOICE: When the subject is Acted upon by the verb. The dirty laundry was hidden by the man. The food was eaten by the dog.

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Changing passive to active