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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 be happy. They were not usually considered to be satisfactory. ... forming the negative hydride ion, and is very occasionally considered to be a halogen on that basis. Premature births and stillbirths are generally not considered to be miscarriages although... The complexity of an algorithm is usually taken to be its worst-case complexity, unless specified ...
Correct sentences for comparison:	People say that he is happy. Let's find out what time we're supposed to be there. Rules are made to be broken. There's got to be another way. That's got to be a good sign. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. The aggressors are bound to be defeated. She was pleased to be treated as a guest. He is very confused to be in this situation. He also is interested to be a Muslim.
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ID:	PASSIVE_VOICE [3]
Version:	6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-07-26 16:45:35 +0000)