Active and passive CRM

Passive voice takes perfectly good sentences and turns them into gobbledygook. For example, the actively voiced, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" becomes the slightly unintelligible, "Why was the road crossed by the chicken?" in the passive voice. As you can see, in this case the main actor in the first sentence, and its subject, becomes the object of a preposition in the next, greatly degrading its meaning. It sounds like something from another country -- Washington, DC, maybe.

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