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Question

Here are another two cases concerning the active and passive voices. Try to explain from the linguistic perspective which sentence is preferred in the context.
1) The singer appeared on the stage and was warmly applauded by the audience.
2) The singer appeared on the stage and the audience warmly applauded him.

Answer 1

The first setence is preferred here since it allows consistency of the subject.