How to write a story without passive voice?The key is to be conscious of your verb choices. Choose strong, active verbs. And when you review your work, look for forms like 'was + past participle' or 'were + past participle' and try to rephrase them. For instance, 'The door was opened' could become 'He opened the door'.
Passive voice rhetorical questionsAn antonymous question was a question that stated something first and then was followed by an omitted general question. It was usually answered with yes/no. There were some basic rules to follow in the passive voice:
1. Reverse questions should follow the principle of "yes before no, no before yes". For example: The building was built last year, wasn't it? This building was built last year, wasn't it? The work can't be finished in two days, can it? You can't finish this job in two days, can you?
2. If there are negative words or phrases such as "never, seldom, hardly, little, few, no, no one, nobody, nothing, none" in the statement part, the statement part should be regarded as a negative sentence, and the question part should be used in the affirmative form. For example: The book has never been read, has it? (The book has never been read, has it?)
3. If there were words with negative prefixing "un -, dis -, im -"(such as unhappy, dislike, unfriendly, impossible) or words with negative postfix "- less" in the statement, the statement would be treated as an affirmative sentence, and the question would be treated as a negative form. The movie is unwatched, isn't it? (This movie wasn't watched, was it?)
4. The subject of the question part of a rhetorical question must be the nominative form of a personal pronoun (i.e. I/we/you/he/she/it/they) and should be consistent with the subject of the statement. When the subject of the statement is the demonicative pronoun "this/that", the subject of the question should be "it"; when the subject of the statement is "these/those", the subject of the question should be "they". For example: This bridge was built last year, isn't it? The bridge was built last year, wasn't it? Those trees were planted by him, weren't they? (He planted those trees, didn't he?)
5. The same principle applies to antonymic questions in the passive voice with a modai verb. For example: The work should be done by you, shouldn't it? (You should be doing this job, shouldn't you?)
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The writing, grammar wise, is fairly terrible. It’s all in passive voice, so everything sounds funny. It makes it less enjoyable to read. Honestly it seems to be on purpose to make the word coung longer. Even if English isn’t your first language, you have to actively try to sound like Yoda all the time. I think the wrong tense choice is also because of everything being in passive voice. Grammar aside, the story is wonderful thus far. Interesting magic system and world development. It’s not one size fits all, you have X tiers of power with X subtiers. It seems different enough to stick out, but not unnecessarily complicated just to be different.