In this article we discuss the meaning of active and passive voice, the best ways to identify each, why it is important to use active voice in your content marketing and examples for how to turn ...

Passive: “The treaty was signed by two generals.” Active: “Two generals signed the treaty.” In Modern English, New York University’s Marcella Frank provides a more academic treatment: “The active ...

The Volokh Conspiracy The supposed sins of the passive voice (part 2 — when the passive voice is better than the active, or at least as good) May 12, 2014 More than 11 years ago Summary By ...

The problems with the passive voice are that it usually requires more words than the active voice to convey the same information; by using more words, it is harder to understand than active voice.

Passive speech is awkward and sometimes hard to understand. Let Word find your passive voice content and help you correct it.

Passive Voice: "Responsible for answering phones and directing calls." Active Voice: "Answered calls and directed lines to the appropriate individual." See how the first example makes it sound ...

And he celebrates the fact that The Aeneid and Moby-Dick begin with the active voice. But Melville begins Billy Budd with a passive, and -- pace Virgil -- condemning the passive voice is a 20th ...

The SAT prefers active voice because sentences written actively are more concise, clear, and direct than passive sentences.

Passive voice means that the object of a transitive verb is made the grammatical subject of the clause. To see what that means, let’s start with an active-voice sentence: Katie wrecked the car.