Using the active voice emphasizes the person or agent who performs an action. Using the passive voice emphasizes the recipient of the action, or sometimes the action itself. Take a look at the ...

The online column titled, guide to grammar.org. provides these examples: Active: “The executive committee (do-ers) approved the new policy.” (receiver) Passive: “The new policy (receiver) was approved ...

In this article we discuss the meaning of active and passive voice, the best ways to identify each, why it is important to use active voice in your content marketing and examples for how to turn ...

Rewriting these examples into passive voice can help clarify the difference between active and passive voice. Passive voice examples: “A banana with no crust is eaten by John.” ...

Passive Voice: "Responsible for answering phones and directing calls." Active Voice: "Answered calls and directed lines to the appropriate individual." See how the first example makes it sound ...

And he celebrates the fact that The Aeneid and Moby-Dick begin with the active voice. But Melville begins Billy Budd with a passive, and -- pace Virgil -- condemning the passive voice is a 20th ...

For example, “coffee” is the object of the verb “made” in “Joe made coffee.” This is active voice because the doer of the action is also the subject of the sentence.

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 ...