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Rule "Passive voice"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

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:	We have been warned about the strong winds on the coast. All of these have been absorbed into the mestiço population.
Correct sentences for comparison:	What little money I had was stolen.
ID:	PASSIVE_VOICE [7]
Version:	6.6-SNAPSHOT (2024-11-21 22:33:10 +0100)