Conventional wisdom about writing: "Do not use the passive voice." The passive voice, simply expressed: "B" was caused by "A." The active voice: "A" caused "B." The passive voice deadens ...

The passive voice tends to be wordier, muddier, and more watered down. Press releases and journalistic writing tend to be crisp, clear, and direct. There’s a subtle nuance between active and ...

Searching for sentences in the passive voice and making them active will improve your writing, adding clarity and immediacy. You can fix a passive sentence by finding someone or something to perform ...

Banning the passive voice, Gopen says, is “perhaps the single worst idea we teach about the English language.” His article in the winter 2014 Litigation journal contains other examples of the ...

Active and Passive Voice. This handout is also available for download in PDF format.. We refer to a sentence as being in the "active voice" when the subject is performing the action of the sentence ...

If you’ve ever had any writing training, either at school or on the job, you’ve probably been warned off the passive voice. Your high school English teacher, all the business writing books ...

Does the passive voice lend itself to biased, manipulative writing? A reader named Richard wanted to know after witnessing a discussion about a news article. “Someone criticized an article on ...

To the Editor: William Germano finds it ironic that academics warn their students off the passive voice while peppering their own writing with that construction (“Passive Is Spoken Here,” The ...

Now let’s learn how to detect passive voice when writing in Word. How to use Word to find passive voice. If using Microsoft 365, you have a new editing feature — Editor.

Does the passive voice lend itself to biased, manipulative writing? A reader named Richard wanted to know after witnessing a discussion about a news article. “Someone criticized an article on ...