Passive Pariah
The passive voice is the unfairly maligned sibling of active voice, but using it correctly can make your writing shine
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3 min readMar 12, 2020
Sooner or later, every writer is given the well-meaning advice to avoid the passive voice. For instance, Strunk and White note in The Elements of Style that “the active voice is usually more direct and vigorous than the passive.” These days…