passive voice
A sentence whose subject receives the action (the motion was denied by the court); usually weaker and longer than the active form (the court denied the motion), except when the actor is unknown or unimportant or the writer wants to hide it.
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voz pasiva
Oración cuyo sujeto recibe la acción (the motion was denied by the court); normalmente más débil y larga que la activa (the court denied the motion), salvo cuando el actor es desconocido, irrelevante o se quiere ocultar. El español prefiere la pasiva refleja, que no existe en inglés.
ExamplesEjemplos
- Mistakes were made says nothing about who made them. Mistakes were made no dice quién los cometió.
RelatedRelacionados: plain language, nominalization
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