Do you find yourself using the passive voice too frequently in your writing? Do you want to make your writing more full of action? Changing your writing style is a daunting task, but if you're willing to work hard you'll find it might be easier than you think. Simply follow the steps below to learn how to avoid writing in the passive voice.
A passive construction occurs when you make the object of an action into the subject of a sentence. That is, whoever or whatever is performing the action is not the grammatical subject of the sentence.
The active and passive voices are the two voices of verbs. In the active voice, the subject does the action; e.g. The man bites the apple. In the passive voice, the subject does not do the action, but the action is done to the subject; e.g. The apple was bitten by the man or The apple was bitten. (Notice: you might not necessarily learn the doer of the action in the sentence.) You need to be able to recognise the passive voice to stop using it.
