Learn about using the active and passive voices in this episode of 6 Minute Grammar.

This module will first present a brief description of the passive voice and how it is used in English language discourse. Second, it will summarize three seminal research studies into deaf children’s ...

Home Law the explainer Grammar quiz: Do you know the passive voice? Many people claim they revile the passive. But most have trouble identifying it correctly.

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 ...

Advanced English learners frequently make recurring grammar errors that impact clarity and precision. Common issues include misuse of articles, incorr ...

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.

Science Says You Can Split Infinitives and Use the Passive Voice Steven Pinker explains why you don’t have to follow bogus grammar rules.

Writers who use passive voice may cause headaches and frustration among grammar instructors and copy editors, but these writers have reason to use the passive voice from time to time.

Indo-European verbs inflected in the middle voice have taken on passive meaning; explanations for this have been proposed, but each presents difficulties. Here an alternative paradigm of language ...