5.5 Passive Voice Your Task When indirectness or tact is required, use passive-voice verbs. Revise the following active-voice sentences so that they are in the passive voice. Example: Travis did not submit the proposal before the deadline. . Revision: The proposal was not submitted before the deadline. a. a. The folks in Accounting made a serious error in our annual tax figures. a. b. We discovered the error too late to correct the annual report. a. C. The Federal Trade Commission targeted deceptive diet advertisements by weight-loss marketers. a. d. We issue refunds only for the amount of the purchase; we are unable to include shipping and handling charges. a. e. An embarrassing mishap was caused because someone misinterpreted the procedures.