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Give your sentence an engine

Make the actor and action easier to follow.

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Rewrite: The circuit was tested by Noor.

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Illustrations generated with OpenArt. Narration uses free local Kokoro neural voices. Illustrations are visual aids; the written lesson carries the explanation.

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Find the action

The report was checked by Maya. The reader waits to learn who did the checking.

The report was checked by Maya.

Move the actor

Maya checked the report. The actor comes first and the verb carries the action.

Maya checked the report.

Choose deliberately

Active voice often makes instructions clear. Passive voice can help when the actor is unknown or the result matters most.

Who does what?

Try the edit

Underline the main verb. Ask who performs it, then choose the order that fits your meaning.

Actor → action → object

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