中国大学MOOC: English tends to use more passive voice than Chinese.
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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: Chinese tends to use more verbs than English.
- English writing tends to use more connective words than Chinese( )
- English tends to employ more nouns, adjectives, prepositions, adverbs, etc., than Chinese, while Chinese tends to use more verbs than English.
- Actually, the passive voice is more commonly used in English than in Chinese, especially in the writing of science and technology.