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Posted by passive voice on Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 4:18pm.

Which sentence is passive voice?
1. The clerk made five errors.
2. Susan had been in sales for five years.
3. She asked for an adjustment.
4. The report was completed by the entire team.

english - Writeacher, Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 4:20pm
Ask yourself about who is doing that action -- if the subject is doing the action, then the verb is active. If the subject is NOT doing the action (if the subject is "acted upon" by someone/something else), then the verb is passive.

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