Writing in the active voice makes the meaning clear while keeping sentences from becoming complicated and wordy. Sentences using passive voice are not necessarily wrong, just less effective than ...

further emphasized that our writing shouldn't totally rely on the active voice and that the passive voice is by itself a powerful device for precisely crafting our sentences to an intended context.

Both describe the same facts. However, in each pair one sentence uses the active voice and one uses the passive voice. Which sentence would you use? That would depend on the tone you wanted to ...

(Sentence 2 happens to be in the past tense, but 3 is not; both 2 and 3 are in the passive voice.) 2. The passive voice uses more words than the active voice. 3. A sentence with a verb in the passive ...