Saturday, February 20, 2016

Local Revision: Passive and Active Voice

And here are my verbs broken down AGAIN!

Active (Specific)
portray, ruffled, criticize, rushed, danced, mulled, buzzed, dimmed, draped, gripped, wooshed, blazed, rang, flew,  executes, skimming, scrutinized, igniting, sampled, interpreted, jumped, focused, claim, supported, display, distract, soften, released, focused, exaggerated, achieve, refused, expressed, complete, attempts, relating, implies, suffered, recovering, assess, considered, supporting, degrade, help, bias, divided, refuse.

Active (General)
spread, talked, wrote, brought, began, see, sat, found, make, began, stands, hits, watching, commented, looked, have, saw, considered, stands, receiving, wrote, saying, open, attempt, saying, wears, seen, tries, came, touched, go, takes, did, takes, need, agree, said, stated, asked, responded, writing, appear, seen, affects, knows, remember, works, commented, move remain.

Passive
considered, seen, upset.

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  1. I appear to have a pretty similar amount of active (specific) and active (general) verbs.  I should attempt to convert some verbs so that they are more specific. My draft doesn't have that many passive verbs (or at least I didn't see many), which is good.
  2. I need to make more of general verbs specific verbs.  This seems like a fairly easy situation to remedy.  I just don't want to make them too specific and make it seem as though I am  exaggerating the characters actions or the overall situation.  

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