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CAHSEE ELA Writing: Modifiers and Passive Voice, Problem 2. How should this sentence be changed, if at all?

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English Language

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Writing Strategies / Modifiers/Precise Language/Active voice

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Here's an unshmoopy question for you...
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How should this sentence be changed, if at all? The newspaper article was written by Ted.
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And here are the potential answers:
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Okay, so what is this question asking?
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Well, it wants to know if we can recognize something written in the passive voice...

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...and then... obliterate it.
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We don't like passive voice any more than we like passive people.
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So when we come across a sentence like this that doesn't just come out and say what the
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subject of the sentence... did...
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...we have to rewrite it so that it is instead in the active voice.
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Ted was performing the action... not the newspaper.
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So... what is the gist of this sentence?
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Ted wrote a newspaper article, right?
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Right. So we need to just come out and say that.
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Our answer is A.
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As in, "Atomic explosion."
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