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 ...

Active voice would give you a sentence like the cat (agent/subject) chased the mouse (patient/object). In the passive voice, the syntactic functions are shuffled, putting the patient ahead of the ...

Use your current topic — that is, what you are writing about — as the grammatical subject of your sentence (see Verbs: Choosing between active and passive voice). When writing a complex ...

Whether you’re an active or passive investor, you can take advantage of a “dollar-cost” averaging technique. While it might not seem obvious, financial investing is mainly driven by the ...

From grade school onwards most everybody is taught that sentences in the active voice are the end-all and be-all of English, and that sentences in the passive voice should be avoided like the plague.