中国大学MOOC: In English advertising, more passive sentences are used instead of active ones.
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- 中国大学MOOC: Passive voice is used more widely than active voice in English news headlines.
- 中国大学MOOC: Which ones of the sentences listed below can be used to claim a refund?
- 中国大学MOOC: English tends to use more passive voice than Chinese.
- 中国大学MOOC: English is inclined to use more syntactic passive and less notional passive.
- Actually, the passive voice is more commonly used in English than in Chinese, especially in the writing of science and technology.