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But it's not passive voice, not really. You've just elided the subject because it's the subject of multiple clauses. Let's say your original sentence is: Born in a land without justice, sodden...
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2019-12-13T12:00:32Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T04:51:18Z (almost 5 years ago)
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But it's _not_ passive voice, not really. You've just elided the subject because it's the subject of multiple clauses. Let's say your original sentence is: > Born in a land without justice, sodden with the blood and tears of earlier generations, he lived a typical brutal peasant's life. If you invert the clauses and spell them out, you have: > He lived a typical brutal peasant's life. He was born in a land without justice. The land was sodden with the blood and tears of earlier generations. What you _do_ have is an ambiguously dangling modifier — you have to read carefully to make sure you see that _sodden with the blood and tears of earlier generations_ is modifying "a land" and not "him." Passive voice has no actor, no subject. _Mistakes were made._
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2015-12-13T13:56:09Z (almost 9 years ago)
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