Sentence examples for use of the passive from inspiring English sources

This feature is most useful for identifying run-on sentences and use of the passive voice.

Unnecessary use of the passive voice.

At her house, I start again, from the beginning: conditional clauses, indirect discourse, the use of the passive.

"Each time I see a split infinitive," she is on record as saying, "an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister".

(Sample from "The Yellow Admiral": "You will put it into the proper Whitehall prose, scabrous, flat-footed, with much use of the passive, will you not?

The most pilloried use of the passive voice might be that famous expression of presidents and press secretaries, "mistakes were made".

Examined in detail is the use of energetically passive designs, especially of the dissipative variety.

Furthermore, the effect of using different configurations of the passive electrical network is discussed.

This pattern of reduced mobility was not found during passive abduction which supports the use of passive exercises in the early phase of rehabilitation.

The rationale behind the ICRS is the use of passive spacing elements to increase the keratoconic corneal structural integrity, shorten the arc length of the corneal surface, and achieving a refractive adjustment by flattening the central cornea [ 11, 12].

The use of advanced passive cooling was explored in the context of complex non-domestic buildings (Rajapaksha and Hyde 2012).