passive-voice
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detect passive voice
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passive voice
npm module for detecting passive voice.
Based on this shell script.
Install
npm install passive-voice
Use
var passive = require('passive-voice');
var problems = passive('He was judged.');
// problems -> [{ index: 3, offset: 10 }]
The Preposition "By"
In scientific writing, it's sometimes more reasonable to use passive voice:
The mixture was heated to 300°C.
Still, it's easy to restate with an active voice passive constructions followed by the preposition "by."
For example:
The mixture was heated by the apparatus to 300°C.
Versus:
The apparatus headed the mixture to 300°C.
For this case, you can pass { by: true }
as a second argument to passive
to only flag
such constructions as problematic:
var passive = require('passive-voice');
var problems = passive('The mixture was heated to 300°C.');
// problems -> []
var problems = passive('The mixture was heated by the apparatus to 300°C.');
// problems -> [{ index: 12, offset: 13 }]
See Also
- write-good - a module for linting English
License
MIT