Learn active and passive voice with easy rules, examples, and step-by-step explanations. Beginner-friendly grammar guide for students to master voice change.

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 ...

Writing in the active voice makes the meaning clear while keeping sentences from becoming complicated and wordy. Sentences using passive voice are not necessarily wrong, just less effective than ...

Here’s another example of how it does this: Where active voice would separate key ideas, passive voice can unite them. Compare these sentences: So whether you’re writing about your memorable ...

The passive voice is, after all, grammatically correct. But there's a reason that public relations and communications professionals write in an active voice rather than a passive voice.