The Problem With Your Writing Isn’t the Passive Voice

It’s nominalization, and this is why

Kimberly Moravec
The Greengrocers’ Style Guide
5 min readJun 10, 2020

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Consider the following two sentences:

Clearcutting trees causes rainforest destruction.

Clearcutting trees destroys the rainforest.

Which one is in active voice? Actually, technically, they both are.

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