passive voice
What’s Up With Active Voice and Passive Voice?
- GIF source: I feel the malice in my veins
We get asked this a lot. Thank you, theyuniversity!
Our articles on passive/active voice:
(Source: theyuniversity)
The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
“She was killed [by zombies.]” <—- passive
“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <—- active
(Found from FYCD.)
FINALLY someone made passive voice easy to understand.
neoncrucifix:
I write a lot in the passive voice and when the time comes I have trouble switching out of that. What are some tips I could use?
I wouldn’t worry about it while you’re writing. But since it’s something you’re aware of, try going back and editing just for passive voice. It’s usually not too-too hard to restructure passive sentences into active ones. Fear not!
