Eliminate passive voice by making the subject do the action. You can shift the focus of the sentence from the direct or indirect object to the actor. For example, you can transform the following sentence from passive to active voice. Passive: The tree was cut down by the man.
When John F. Kennedy became president in January 1961, Americans had the perception that the United States was losing the "space race" with the Soviets. President Kennedy understood the need and had the vision of not only matching the Soviets, but surpassing them. On May 25, 1961, he stood before Congress and proclaimed that “this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before the decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.”
On September 12, 1962, President Kennedy delivered a speech describing his goals for the nation’s space effort before a crowd of 35,000 people in the football stadium at Rice University in Houston, Texas.
"During the shop’s peak hours – from eight in the evening till around midnight – one could hardly hear oneself talk because of the boisterous chatters that went on."
Nonfiction is considered a type of literature because it bases its overall plot on actual historical events.
The genre of literary nonfiction consist on a type of prose that employs the literary techniques thar are usually connected to fiction or poetry to report on persons, places, and events in the real world. Precise tone and words will be used in literari non-fiction. Examples of the literary nonfiction includ science writings, travel writings, nature writings and so forth. The main purpose of non-fiction is to entertain.
