While passive voice can be useful in many contexts, particularly when writing scientific texts or rules and regulations, in other contexts it can sound wordy and even boring.
Instruction: I have identified the passive voice in these examples. Try to rephrase using active voice, reducing wordiness too.
- It is a guide to enable the next steps to be taken by the key stakeholders.
- From the national health database, frequency of waterborne diseases of the mentioned sub-districts will be collected and will be re-checked with the hospital data by a team of experts.
- S. City has received 46 250 doses of nOPV2. As of 17 June, 27 997 doses of nOPV2 have been received by the 0-7-year-old children in S. City.
Answer key
- This guide will enable key stakeholders to take the next steps.
- A team of experts will collect the frequency of waterborne diseases from the national health database and re-check it with the hospital data of the mentioned sub-districts.
- S. City has received 46 250 doses of nOPV2. In that city, as of 17 June, children aged 0-7 years have received 27 997 of those doses.
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Author: Carol Waites
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