Once you’ve written your fifth, fiftieth, or five-hundredth sentence in a passive voice, it starts to wear your reader down. When you’re writing with a passive voice, it takes the reader half a sentence just to figure out who is doing something. It adds ambiguity that forces your reader to decipher what you mean. Most prominently, passive writing muddles your sentence. So let’s chat about why passive writing tends to be weaker, when you can use it, and how to strike a good balance between the two structures. In fact, it will feel silly to have a book (or article, blog, newsletter, etc.) without any passive writing in it at all. It’s not the end of the world if your book has some passive voice in it. The thing is, passive writing isn’t terrible. We know what passive and active writing are, but why do we prefer the latter to the former? A team of subject matter experts wrote the speech.She plunged her sword through the necromancer.
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