If you've provided some options, It would be much better. Anyway, I'd go with this: Having suffered 8 consecutive defeats, the members of the team felt understandably <span>apathetic</span> before their last game of the season.
<span>When using active voice, the subject
performs the action noted by the main verb. (As one site put it, the
subject is a do-er or a be-er.)
When using the passive voice, the
subject is acted upon by another agent or an unknown something. (The
subjects of passive sentences are not do-ers or be-ers.)
These are much better explained with examples:
Active: Brutus stabbed Caesar.
Passive: Caesar was stabbed by Brutus.
Active: The committee approved the new policy.
Passive: <span>The policy was approved of by the committee.</span></span>
But words is like the spots on dice: no matter how you fumbles 'em there's times when they just won't come. So simile is the answer.
In the story of Things
Fall Apart, women of the Igbo tribe are awfully mistreated, and considered as
weak and get little or no respect outside of their role as a mother.
<span>It was obvious from
the way the crowd stood that the ceremony was for men. There were a lot of
women in the ceremony, but they only looked on from the edge like outsiders. Women
are not invited nor allowed to stay while men are engaging in any discussion.
Women are also not included in the council of war and hence they do not form
any part of the masquerades representing the judiciary and ancestral spirits. </span>
