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Kill Passive Writing

The sentence, “In my opinion, passive writing is bad,” exemplifies the passive voice. The active voice says, “Kill passive writing.” My title proclaims this. By nature, my words, both spoken and written, are passive. Many years ago, I became so irritated with Microsoft Word pointing out the passive sentences that I turned off the option. […]

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How to Deal With Passive Sentences

How concerned should we be over passive sentences? My response has included both extremes: ignore every one of them and kill each one. Right now, I’m somewhere in the middle. Years ago spell check shocked me by showing all of the passive sentences I used when I wrote. Seemingly every sentence. It was so bad […]