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  • passive_voice.js

  • ¶ 
    'use strict';
  • ¶

    boolean if sentence has

  • ¶

    “[copula] [pastTense] by” “[pastParticiple] by”

    const passive_voice = function(s) {
  let terms = s.terms;
  for(let i = 0; i < terms.length - 2; i++) {
    if (terms[i].pos['Copula'] && terms[i + 1].pos['Verb'] && terms[i + 2].normal === 'by') {
  • ¶

    don’t do ‘june was approaching by then’

          if (terms[i + 1].pos['Gerund']) {
        continue;
      }
      return true;
    }
  }
  return false;
};

module.exports = passive_voice;