You’ve probably heard that passive voice is bad in writing. Be honest: Do you know what passive voice is? If you don’t, it’s OK. It may be something you’ve sensed without quite understanding, the ...

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Editor’s note: This article is a re-run as part of our countdown of top stories from the past year. Listed among George Orwell’s “swindles and perversions” of writing, it’s important to recognize when ...

For many writers, feedback that your copy is "too passive" can be frustrating. The passive voice is, after all, grammatically correct. But there's a reason that public relations and communications ...

PITY the passive voice. No feature of the grammar of English has such a bad reputation. Style guides, including that of The Economist, as well as usage books like the celebrated American “Elements of ...

Each Flipped Learning Module (FLM) is a set of short videos and online activities that can be used (in whole or in part) to free up class time from content delivery for greater student interaction. At ...

Passive speech is awkward and sometimes hard to understand. Let Word find your passive voice content and help you correct it. You probably learned about passive and active voice during grade school ...