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> Carol:
> Wait. You love passive voice sentences in informal writing and think they give personality to writing? I think they rob writing of liveliness and precision. 

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Granted, it wasn't fiction, but I used to write auditing reports in passive voice. It helped to avoid phrases like, "This nurse reviewed the chart...in this nurse's opinion..." We were able to write "The medical records were reviewed. yada yada. It was determined that all charges were accurate and appropriate."