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1️⃣Using active voice is as a strategy to be more concise.
📕"Active Voice" verses "Passive voice"
Active voice focus on the subject performing the action, whereas passive voice focus on the action being performed.
👏👏👏Concise doesn't mean how many words you are using, but how direct we are being.
Ex: The call was made by me.(The focu is on the call)
Ex: I made the call.(concise and direct)
Ex: She was visited by him.
Ex: He visited her.(more powerful and direct)
2️⃣to combine sentences
Ex: The phone is small. It's black.
🫶The phone is small and black.
🫶The small phone is black.
👏👏👏
repeating subjects or using pronouns when we should actually combine those sentences to be more concise, and not only should you avoid repeating the subject or using pronouns when it's unnecessary, sometimes you should just avoid using simple sentences u can combine to compound or complex sentences.
Ex: She arrived at 2pm yesterday. She opened up the store. She organized the shelves.
Ex: She arrived at 2pm, opened up the store and then organized the shelves.