So I am going to surmise, as it is usually safe to do, that my students have been instructed along the way, that the passive voice is a wicked thing that, like Communism in the 1950s, can be lurking ...

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 politics ...

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 ...

Clear writing has become a competitive asset in Indian classrooms, yet many students still struggle to distinguish between ...

The great thing about being a grammar expert is you don’t have to know anything about grammar to be one. Just launch a blog, say whatever you think is true and bask in the certainty that no one will ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Both sentence pairs make sense. Both describe the same facts. However, in each pair one sentence uses the active voice ...

Often, the goal of writing is to inform the reader. News articles, handwritten notes, emails, Facebook posts — they can all give the reader information he didn't already have. But sometimes when ...

Teaching students to write in the active voice will significantly strengthen their essays because sentences written in the active voice often have much more impact than those written in the passive ...

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 ...