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Don't Anesthetize Your Colleagues with Bad Writing

Harvard Business Review

But if you develop a strong habit of using active voice, you'll largely prevent convoluted, backward-sounding sentences in your writing. Don't write "The closing documents were prepared by Sue"; instead, write "Sue prepared the closing documents." How do you identify passive voice? It's invariably a be- verb or get , plus a past-tense verb.

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