Column: A Word, Please: Grammar blog’s passive-voice advice was laughed at by experts. By June Casagrande . July 6, 2017 1:40 PM PT . ... The passive voice is not just any action-impaired sentence.

The passive voice focuses more on an action that took place and places less importance on the person ... General Rules. ... Grammar Girl: Active Voice Versus Passive Voice; Chad Buleen. Return To Top.

Sentences using passive voice are not necessarily wrong, just less effective than active voice. Also, passive voice tends to be wordy. Locating Active and Passive Voice. You can differentiate active ...

Remember: "passive voice" does not mean "any instance where you let someone off the hook." 7. The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq .

In the active voice, the doer is the subject: Squirrels ate my birdseed. In the passive, the done-to is the subject— My birdseed was eaten —and the doer is an oblique object (… by s quirrels ...

How to Set Up Active & Passive Voice in Microsoft Word 2010. Microsoft Word 2010 can help punch up your document's prose by alerting you when you use passive voice in a sentence.