Passive voice will not be used anymore! :-) Paul W. Frields wrote: > I have looked over a wide variety of random insertions in some of our > docs and see a lot of passive voice being used. Please try to use > active voice in docs instead of passive voice wherever possible. The > folloiwng is an example of the difference between active and passive > voice: > > PASSIVE (incorrect): In Fedora 8, a new tool called "FooBar" has been > introduced to help users create foobars. > ACTIVE (correct): Fedora 8 includes a new tool called "FooBar" that > helps users create foobars. > > Generally, passive voice includes unnecessary forms of the verb "to be," > such as "has been," "is," or "was." Passive voice is unnecessarily > difficult for translators in some locales to address. > > Here is one way to test for unnecessary passive voice. If the sentence > includes a form of the verb "to be," does it: > > (A) describe an *attribute* of the sentence's subject, or > (B) describe something that happened? > > If the answer is (B), the sentence probably uses passive voice and > should be reworded. > > Today's English composition tip is brought to you by the letter "M" and > the number 4. :-) > >
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