{"id":724,"date":"2022-11-30T14:59:19","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T14:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/?p=724"},"modified":"2023-09-22T12:50:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:50:28","slug":"did-you-know-theres-an-online-tool-for-passive-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/archives\/724","title":{"rendered":"Did You Know That There&#8217;s an Online Tool for Passive Voice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there&#8217;s a\u00a0 free online &#8220;To-Be&#8221; verb analyzer?<\/p>\n<p>If you copy and paste small chunks of your final paper into this online tool, it will identify any sentences written in Passive Voice so you can find those instances quickly and correct them by adjusting the subject of your sentence. It&#8217;s a great tool to find passive sentences. However, you still need to fix each individual sentence.\u00a0 Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aztekera.com\/tools\/tobeverbs.php\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-725 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/files\/2022\/11\/To-Be-Verb-Blog-300x221.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/files\/2022\/11\/To-Be-Verb-Blog-300x221.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/files\/2022\/11\/To-Be-Verb-Blog-768x566.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/files\/2022\/11\/To-Be-Verb-Blog-676x498.png 676w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/files\/2022\/11\/To-Be-Verb-Blog.png 973w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there&#8217;s a\u00a0 free online &#8220;To-Be&#8221; verb analyzer? If you copy and paste small chunks of your final paper into this online tool, it will identify any sentences written in Passive Voice so you can find those instances quickly and correct them by adjusting the subject of your sentence. It&#8217;s a great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,74],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-tips","category-graduate-students","tag-passive-voice","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}