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Active and passive voice

Learning English Grammar

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Which of These News Headlines Sound Better?

When the thing receiving the action of the verb is important, you can show this importance by putting it at the start of the sentence. The passive voice is up with an object plus the verb to b plus the past participle. And we use it when we're more interested in the object of the verb, or if the subject is unknown or obvious. Now for our quiz. Which of these news headlines sounds better? Is it? Eh, 85 year old mary hiker has climbed mount kilimanjaro or b, mount kilemanjaro has been climbed by an 85 yearold mary hike? Well, they're both grammatically correct, but the active sentence a is

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