read the sentence.the famous artist and sculptor michelangelo sculpted the statue david in italy in the early 1500s.the best reason for the writer to revise this sentence to be in the passive voice is to emphasize.

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D. the statue.

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The famous artist and sculptor Michelangelo sculpted the statue David in Italy in the early 1500s.

The best reason for the writer to revise this sentence to be in the passive voice is to emphasize the statue.

In a passive voice construction, the grammatical subject of the clause receives the action of the verb. Passive voice is employed when the action need to be emphasized and when the doer of the action is irrelevant.

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d)to persuade readers that a prince must eradicate the royal family of a conquered principality.

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