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Passive voice is actually essential sometimes - for instance when you're editing someone's work or reviewing their code. "X can be changed to y" comes across a
by Kluny 6y ago
Passive voice is actually essential sometimes - for instance when you're editing someone's work or reviewing their code.
"X can be changed to y" comes across a lot softer than "you should change x to y", and is likely to get better results.
- dragonwriter 6y agoWhat works even better is, “To avoid <problem>, consider Y instead of X”. Passive voice tries to mitigate the impact of the problem of “arbitrary direction” rather than resolving the problem.