In this lesson, Joe talks about the different uses of passive voice. Hi I'm Joe. And today we're looking at how to use passive voice in academic writing. Passive voice can be used in most contexts. It ...

Whether you write on a part- or full-time basis, you can benefit from becoming more familiar with an often-overlooked aspect of writing that is treated in today’s column: active and passive voice ...

One "rule" that many self-appointed experts on writing return to again and again is: "Don't use the passive!" Or, as some puckishly put it, "The passive voice should be avoided." The passive voice is ...

Both sentence pairs make sense. Both describe the same facts. However, in each pair one sentence uses the active voice and one uses the passive voice. Which sentence would you use? That would depend ...

Sentences can be described as active or passive. Using the passive voice is a way of writing sentences so that the subject has the action 'done' to it. The passive voice can be useful for making ...

THE cult of the active voice has an enduring influence in English grammar. From grade school onwards most everybody is taught that sentences in the active voice are the end-all and be-all of English, ...

Passive and active voice simply refer to the relationship of the subject to the verb. In a sentence using the active voice, the subject of the sentence (doer) performs the action described by the verb ...