Local Revisions: Active and Passive Voice

Dianne Hope, Collaboration Collaborator Book, 12/27/2015, via Pixabay, Public Domain Distribution License

Active (Specific):
focuses
respond
recites
states
reformed
update
kicking
inform
surrounding
pose
implement
believes
describes
contradicts
sparked
divided
scrambled
resenting
basing
adopted
changed
stated
kicked
occurred
implemented 

described

balanced
achieved

shown
searched
provided
remained 
passed
designed
emerged
pounded
rose
entwined
calmed
touched 
eliminated
limited
called
taught
summed
criticized
involved

Active (General):
remains 
learning
help
create
understand
shut
testing
searching
replace
shows
be
putting
come
touches
Say
talks

comes
bring

stayed
began
caused
worked
created
came
wrote
used
showed
seemed
happened
brought
taken

Passive:
are not learning
are
was
were

are still published

was testing

was concerning

was published

was getting

was outraged

was implemented

were not followed

were used

1: The large majority of my verbs are action verbs that are very specific. Of course, this list doesn't constitute the number of times I used each verb, but even with the number of times I used linking verbs such as "was", "were", and "are", I calculated that there appear to be more specific action verbs in my draft. Overall, however, there is a nice blend of verb types in my project. In my writing, I mostly have action verbs, so the trend of a majority of these types of words isn't surprising, but I'm glad that some linking verbs are included since it prevents the piece as a whole from just being specific action after specific action. This is a QRG, not a cooking recipe.

2: From what I see, I might want to make it so that there are less general active verbs and even more specific active verbs. After reading my guide over, I didn't like how a good majority of the general active verbs were handled in my writing, so maybe I could tweek my writing to be more specific in its descriptions.