Sentence examples for passive wording from inspiring English sources

For example, in this instance, "An error was made…," passive wording softens the meaning.[9].

Mandela was neither some passive, word-spinning proponent of eventual liberation, nor a plaster saint.

"It's an old-fashioned passive word that I've trained myself out of using".

Not being a definite lame duck is rather different, ain't it, from definitely not being a lame duck, and, when you hear the deceptively passive words "Nothing is decided," can't you just picture a man in a very nice business suit and an expensive tie sharpening an axe?

These passive words were used to describe even those species in which the males were actively trying to get away.

They unconsciously primed some volunteers with action words, like go andmove, and others with neutral words or passive words like sit.

The tense is largely passive, long words are preferred to short ones and convoluted locutions are de rigueur.

Ever since his much-criticized remarks about rural folk "clinging to" guns and God — seen as patronizing liberal snobbery — Obama has been passive (his word) on the gun issue.

"Tenancy" may be too passive a word.

Passive listening: number words vs. pseudowords: Contrasting passive listening to number words with passive listening to pseudowords (p <.005, uncorrected) yielded activation in the bilateral intraparietal sulcus (BA 40), extending in the right hemisphere into the posterior intraparietal sulcus (BA 40) and in the left hemisphere into the supramarginal gyrus (BA 40, Figure 2, Table 3).

The word passive gets a bad rap.