Take The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, the book that activated the passive antipathy. Strunk claimed this ...

Sentences can be described as active or passive. Using the passive voice is a way of writing sentences so that the subject has the action 'done' to it. The passive voice can be useful for making ...

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 on what tone you wanted to ...

In contrast, the passive voice focuses on the object that is acted ... "The FALCON (Fission-Activated Laser Concept) program at…" In the rare case that an acronym is commonly known, you might ...