Question
It is not recommended that you change passive voice to active voice when correcting a parallel structure error.
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GPT-5 mini
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When fixing parallelism, keep the grammatical forms consistent without changing voice unnecessarily — changing passive to active can alter emphasis or meaning. For example:
- Not parallel: "The report was written, edited, and will publish the results."
- Fixed (keeping passive): "The report was written, edited, and published."
Or, if you deliberately want active voice for the whole sentence, make all elements active: "They wrote, edited, and published the report."
When fixing parallelism, keep the grammatical forms consistent without changing voice unnecessarily — changing passive to active can alter emphasis or meaning. For example:
- Not parallel: "The report was written, edited, and will publish the results."
- Fixed (keeping passive): "The report was written, edited, and published."
Or, if you deliberately want active voice for the whole sentence, make all elements active: "They wrote, edited, and published the report."