Introduction
Many teachers are not resolute vis-à-vis the question of using the
passive voice in writing. Most of them even avoid mentioning the passive voice
style while teaching writing. This is either because they regard it as a minor
issue and argue that there are other focal things in writing which disserve
much more concentration, or because they wouldn’t like their students to be
‘politicians’ for the reason that politicians are said to be known for the
excessive use of this dead style. Still, there are teachers who advise their
students to avoid using the passive voice while writing because they deem it is
redundant and bulk. Nonetheless, they keep silent about the “why not?” To my
mind, they would at least let them know that this self-imposing style on the
students is confusing and message breaking down when the reader cannot decide
who did what?! It brings about ambiguity and misunderstanding.
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