Elevate your writing with these seven grammar techniques for clarity and impact. Switch to active voice for a stronger tone ...

English is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, yet even fluent speakers often slip up when it comes to ...

Women's eNews had also been regretfully unaware that the passive voice was being used when addressing men’s violence against ...

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Senator Nenadi Usman, has said patriotism can no longer be restricted to passive admiration of leaders or ideas but the active participation of citizens in changing society for the better.

A passive is where we take the object on an active sentence and make it the subject of a new sentence. We usually form it by using the verb 'be' and the past participle. It is a voice, not a tense ...

Active Voice vs. Passive Voice. Let’s start by clarifying what we’re dealing with. In many English sentences, you have an agent as the grammatical subject, doing something to a patient, ...

Understanding the difference between active and passive voice sheds light on the Second Amendment. With active voice, a subject acts, and this action occasionally affects an object.

THE cult of the active voice is one of the most enduring in English grammar. From grade school onwards most everybody is taught that sentences in the active voice are the end-all and be-all of English ...

So, if you want to curb your passive-aggressive behavior, get more respect, and stop being such a perfectionist, remember these three phrases: 1. Attack the problem.

Writing in active voice adds punch to an otherwise ho-hum sentence. Getty Microsoft Word 2010 can help punch up your document's prose by alerting you when you use passive voice in a sentence.