The Importance of Active Voice in English

In a bunch of Indian languages including Marathi and Urdu the passive formulation is quite common. For example in cricket commentary you'll often have Sanjay Manj Raker who's native tongue is Marathi saying things like beautiful cover drive was played by sure of Ganguly right which I think of it as speaking backwards. So this is something I can't figure out that why do we speak backwards as it were or use these passive formulations in some of these languages again I know that it's like a question that might be too meta and no one can really know. The answer the simplest answer is that it's um an area phenomenon and the deeper answer is that the very nature of a past

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