Active and passive voice, and verbs buried in nouns

This branch covers choices that shape who or what a sentence focuses on, divided into active and passive voice, first-person writing and nominalisation. It leaves general sentence construction, conciseness and word choice to neighbouring topics.

• Choosing between the active and the passive voice — recognising passives, effects on emphasis and comprehension, suitable uses, usage counts and disputed rules
• The first person in a research article — section-specific use of we, thematic focus and identifying the authors’ own interpretations
• Verbs buried in nouns: what a nominalisation costs and when it earns its place — recognising nominalisations, their costs, restoring verbs and retaining forms that name a concept or keep it in focus