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.
Answer:
The story’s narrator is the protagonist, a young Indian girl named Hema, who lives in the United States. The “you” Hema refers to is an Indian boy named Kaushik, whose parents are friends with Hema’s parents, and whom Hema has a crush on.
Explanation: from edmentum
A loaded word is a word that not only informs but also caries some emotion with it, such as condemning, exciting, praising.
In the statement above the loaded word is "crushing" - it makes a qualitative statement about the defeat: it was a very definite defeat.
