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A voice beloved of [[mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] and scientists, the passive saps even the most energetic sentence of its ''joie de vivre''; along the way obscuring responsibility for action, depersonalising and sterilising whatever meat there may have been on the bones of your sentence. | A voice beloved of [[mediocre lawyer|lawyers]] and scientists, the passive saps even the most energetic sentence of its ''joie de vivre''; along the way obscuring responsibility for action, depersonalising and sterilising whatever meat there may have been on the bones of your sentence. | ||
To be sure, at times where one ''should'' use the passive (if you can’t identify the | To be sure, at times where one ''should'' use the passive (if you can’t identify the [[antagonist]], or if doing so might give offence), but generally a passive sentence is longer, flatter and duller than its [[active]] equivalent. | ||
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