The exchange also demonstrates the passive voice, the form of speech in which the doer of the action is not stated.

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Put the doer into your sentences.

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Tim Cook is the doer.

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Tim draws comic books too, but he's basically a dreamer who fancies himself a doer -- his plans for taking revenge on the forbidding nun are ludicrous, though no less perilous for their impracticality.

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