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Rule "Passive voice"

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Description:	Passive voice
	By default, this rule is not active in LanguageTool
Message:	The text seems to be passive voice. To make the text clearer and easier to read, you can often use the active voice.
Category:	Style (ID: STYLE)
Link:	https://languagetool.org/insights/post/what-is-passive-voice/
Tags:	[picky]
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	He is said to have been happy. He is said to have not always been happy. He is not thought to have been happy. He was not generally thought to have been happy. ... by a litigation-funded study that has since been shown to have been 'an elaborate fraud'. Cult films have been falsely claimed to have been banned to increase their... Such mixtures are commonly thought to have first been prepared by Indian merchants for sale to...
Correct sentences for comparison:	People said that he was happy.
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ID:	PASSIVE_VOICE [2]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-19 22:33:07 +0200)