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1 Active vs. Passive Weak vs. power
VOICE Active vs. Passive Weak vs. power

2 VOICE The writer’s voice is the individual writing style of an author, a combination of idiotypical usage of syntax, diction, punctuation, character development, dialogue, etc., within a given body of text (or across several works).

3 Example: Frederik backman

4 Example: ernest Hemingway

5 Active voice: When the subject of the sentence Does something
The man hid the dirty laundry. The dog ate the food.

6 Passive VOICE: When the subject is Acted upon by the verb.
The dirty laundry was hidden by the man. The food was eaten by the dog.

7 A video! Because it’s cute!

8 Changing passive to active

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