The passive voice: despised by teachers, maligned by editors, and misunderstood by almost everyone. For over a century, this grammatical construction has been the bogeyman of English writing ...

Because the passive lets us avoid saying who has done something, it can be used when someone wants to hide the fact that they have done something wrong or bad. I'm afraid all the sweets have been ...

Most language learners dread grammar. Tenses, conditionals, participles—it’s a mental minefield. But Anfisa spices things up ...

The passive voice is an important grammatical structure that appears in every form of written and spoken English. Knowledge of this construction is vital for reading and writing English in everyday ...

In passive voice, helping verbs are necessary to indicate the passive construction. These are forms of the verb "to be" (is, are, was, were, being, been).

In the news today, I see only the passive voice: “A group of Palestinian men waving a white flag are shot at,” and I can’t help but hear the voices of my past English teachers ask, “But ...

That passive voice is an assigning of guilt away from Hamas and entirely onto those whom Hamas murdered in Israel. A worldview that sees the Jewish state as a colonizing force also permits ...

The old thinking about the passive voice is that the speakers were not mentally sophisticated. That attitude is no longer accepted by modern linguists.” But to an intuitive grammarian like this writer ...

The passive voice: despised by teachers, maligned by editors, and misunderstood by almost everyone. For over a century, this grammatical construction has been the bogeyman of English writing ...

A passive is where we take the object on an active sentence and make it the subject of a new sentence. We usually form it by using the verb 'be' and the past participle.