Passive Voice: As Connector

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Notice how the passive voice preserves the topic chain of the subject I in the following example.

Example

I remember to start with that day in Sacramento . . . when I first entered a classroom, able to understand some fifty stray English words. The third of four children, I had been preceded to a Roman Catholic school by an older brother and sister.           — Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory

 

See also
The Five C's of Style: Connect: Topic Chains