When I asked for suggestions on editing topics to write about, Elise Bishop—my college grammar instructor—suggested I write about passive voice.
As an editor, I do get asked a lot about passive voice. And what I’ve noticed in my years as an editor (and before that as a composition instructor and before that as a writing tutor working for Mrs. B. in a writing center) is that it is often hard for writers to know what passive voice is. They know they’re supposed to avoid it, but how to do so and why are murkier.
So, let’s talk more about passive voice.
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