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Active Voice Versus Passive Voice

by Blue_Skies » Thu May 30, 2013 4:28 pm
While recognizing that lying often facilitates social ineractions,psychiatrists are seeking to determine when they become destructive and which kinds of mental problems they can signal.

a.they become destructive and which kinds of mental problems they can signal
b.they become destructive and the mental problems that are signaled by them
c.it becomes destructive and what are the kinds of mental problems they signal
d.it becomes destructive and the mental problems that are signaled by it
e.it becomes destructive and which kinds of mental problems it can signal

Can somebody explain what's wrong with D. i eliminated D because it is written in passive voice and E was written active voice without any error. So i pick E over D. is that good enough reason ?

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by bubbliiiiiiii » Thu May 30, 2013 10:01 pm
Blue_Skies wrote: Can somebody explain what's wrong with D. i eliminated D because it is written in passive voice and E was written active voice without any error. So i pick E over D. is that good enough reason ?
Another reason to select E over D is parallelism.

E is of the form :
While recognizing that lying often facilitates social ineractions,psychiatrists are seeking to determine X and Y.
X = when it becomes destructive
Y = which kinds of mental problems it can signal.

D is also of the form:
While recognizing that lying often facilitates social ineractions,psychiatrists are seeking to determine X and Y.
X = when it becomes destructive
Y = the mental problems that are signaled by it

Between D and E, In E X and Y look more parallel

Thus, E.

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