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ProfessorGAC

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6. Passive Voice

Reply to LogDog75 (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 2, 2025, 06:11 PM

2 hrs ago

That's usually preferred in technical papers.
Every time I'd write up project work & ran the grammar check on Word, it would flag passive voice, over &,over.
I just hit "ignore" over & over.
Eventually, I just ran spellchecker and left grammar check off.
Most writing doesn't like too much passive voice, but science trained people were encouraged to write thsg way.

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I just reviewed the slides my son gave for his Ph.D. proposal, and excerpted his paper on the topic. [View all] NNadir 13 hrs ago OP

You must be very proud Redleg 12 hrs ago #1

He is not in your research field, is he ? drray23 12 hrs ago #2

I get your point. My son did a paper on the benefits of clowns running the government but Wonder Why 10 hrs ago #3

No, he's a nuclear engineer, but that said, I have spent close to 40 years studying, in an autodidactic way... NNadir 10 hrs ago #4

I read the thesis of one of my troops going for his masters degree LogDog75 6 hrs ago #5

Passive Voice ProfessorGAC 2 hrs ago #6