The passive voice: despised by teachers, maligned by editors, and misunderstood by almost everyone. For over a century, this grammatical construction has been the bogeyman of English writing ...

But it’s also critically important that the essay is well written as much as it is well planned, because a few spelling, grammar or style ... While the passive voice has its place in writing ...

Use the passive voice to focus on the receiver of the action (direct object). Reed-Kellogg sentence diagrams were invented to help students learn grammar. The focus is on the diagrams and not on the ...

The voice of the verb is distinct from its tense ... more and more people have become interested in the discipline of communication," and while this is a perfectly grammatical sentence, it puts the ...