Write subject-verb-object People understand the active voice more easily than the passive voice. According to Jan H. Spyridakis, author of "Guidelines for Authoring Comprehensible Web Pages," people: Remember active sentences verbatim better than passive ones. (Blount and Johnson, 1971) Read active sentences faster than passive ones. That may be because active … [Read more...] about Activate the passive voice online
Passive voice
‘By my grandma’
How to identify the passive voice Do you have trouble finding and fixing the passive voice? Here are two tips for making in easier. 1. Add “by my grandma.” If you can add “by my grandma” to the end of a sentence, it’s probably passive voice, agent deleted, says Tim Burnett, who handles Express communications at FedEx. Example: “A nap was taken … by my grandma.” 2. Make … [Read more...] about ‘By my grandma’