The phrase "actual passage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific section or excerpt from a text that is genuine or real, often in contrast to a summary or paraphrase.
Example: "In the actual passage from the novel, the author describes the protagonist's inner turmoil in vivid detail."
Alternatives: "genuine excerpt" or "true section".
A similar picture emerged for the actual passage of these proposals.
The plan would limit filibusters to the actual passage of a bill.
And her actual passage to South Korea, though full of risk, had left her somehow less scarred.
That would reduce time-wasting in the Senate but would still allow supermajority barriers on the actual passage of bills.
WASHINGTON — After the shutdown, the filibusters and years of stalled bills, it was the actual passage of legislation this week that revealed the true depth of congressional dysfunction.
For another, the actual passage of the ions (which are electrically charged atoms) creates the current, so no turbine is required.
It was during this period that a bewildering number of experts, friends, lyricists and translators contributed ideas and actual passages of writing to the text of what we now think of as The Life of Galileo.
The "Last Week Tonight" host read some actual passages from the letters on his July 13 episode, and things got hot.
The result is a 172-page magazine where all the glamor edicts have been replaced by actual passages from Hitler's autobiographical manifesto.
Based on all of the actual passages coded, rather than number of documents coded, this graph illustrates strikingly that the major categories which pertain to management (patterned slices) as listed above, together comprise 64% of the passages coded.
This figure, based on tallies of actual "passages" of data coded, rather than number of documents coded, shows relative percentages of data within each of the eight major categories.
