Saturday, February 20, 2016

Local Revision: Active and Passive Voice

Active (specific)

capture
investigate
stretch
launched
span
deceiving


Active (general)

advertised
gain
carried
gathered
claimed
argue
support
selling
deliberate
played
viewed
judged
presented
present
associate
manufacturing
exaggerated
increase
charged
advertise
claiming
aid
help
challenge
subscribed
suffering
cope
sell
blamed
emphasize
stem
conducted
gathered
founded
approached
fund
exposing
participated
speak
supplied
conduct
supported
described
want
made
serve
find
ignoring
protect
inform
cheat
exists
give
states
acts
decided
face
focuses
solicited
mandates
send
explaining
supply
cancel
settled
defends
stating
admitting
tell
questioning
paid
buying
looking
receive
saving
wasting
pushes


Passive

classified
charged
does
put
trying
taking
protecting
give
including
made
allow


Looking at all my verbs from by draft, I was surprised to see how little specific verbs I have. There are not as many as I would like to have. There are not too many passive verbs though. As I was looking back at the draft for context, even the passive verbs seemed appropriate. In these situation, replacing them with stronger verbs might seem a like little too much,

I will definitely be adding in more specific verbs. First I will try changing some of the more general verbs into specific ones. If I feel like I still don't have enough after that, I will try to add extra sentences, where appropriate, to further convey emotion.

Luigi Vampa "Coordinamento" Public Domain



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