The passive voice

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   O'Grady, William; John Archibald; Mark Aronoff; Janie Rees-Miller (2001). Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (Fourth ed.). Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-24738-9.
   
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   Kroeger, Paul (2005). Analyzing Grammar: An Introduction. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 052181622X.
   
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   Saeed, John (1997). Semantics. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-20035-5.
   
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   Croft, William (1991). Syntactic Categories and Grammatical Relations: The Cognitive Organization of Information. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-12090-2.
   
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   Pullum, Geoffrey (2014). "Fear and Loathing of the English Passive" (PDF). Language and Communication. 37: 60–74. doi:10.1016/j.langcom.2013.08.009.
   
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   unassertive", "lacking in force", "failing to take responsibility", in the words of the linguist Mark Liberman
   
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   Freeman, Jan (2009-03-22). "Active resistance: What we get wrong about the passive voice". The Boston Globe. Boston. ISSN 0743-1791. Archived from the original on 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2010-03-01. All good writers use the passive voice.
   
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   Merriam-Webster (1989). Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Merriam-Webster. pp. 720–21. ISBN 978-0-87779-132-4. There is general agreement that the passive is useful when the receiver of the action is more important than the doer