Macmillan Holdings, LLC. Grammar Girl, Grammar Girl's, QDnow, and Quick and Dirty Tips are all trademarks of Macmillan Holdings, LLC. A lot of you have asked me to explain passive voice and how to avoid it. AnthonyHauser grammar this was very helpfull in my search to find the difference between active and passive voice http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=62137#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=62137#Comments Tue, 21 May 2013 17:27:05 GMT Rob Graham grammar Passive voice was never said to be 'wrong' in any way or form. Grammar Girl simply stated that active voice is understood better by a larger number of people. Using Active Voice: More people can understand and therefore buy more of your works. Using Passive Voice: More 'educated' people like the style, but you lose a large portion of the population as potential readers. And as for the example of education Grammar Girl noted, we must face that she was not pointing her finger at anyone who left school early who took upon themselves the massive undertaking of educating themselves by the love or reading. Let's face it, the majority of people who drop out are less educated and left school because they loathe reading and other scholastic activities. Those who read on and educate themselves well are not the rule, they are the exception. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=62015#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=62015#Comments Fri, 17 May 2013 16:30:05 GMT Raymond Duke grammar @Oni I have no doubt you're educated. However, your comprehension skills could use some work. For one, the writer of this article was quoting an article; an article that used enrollment of school as a base for determining education. I agree it's not the best way to determine one's education (I personally love education but dislike school), but it does allow for a valid measurement of determining if one can or cannot understand the difference of an active and passive sentence based on accessible knowledge. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61519#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61519#Comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:09:47 GMT Oni grammar I dropped out of school at 16 and I have to say that I was offended by the seemingly off hand comment that this makes me uneducated. My IQ is 130, and I am by no means less educated for the fact I did not finish high school in the traditional way. By your standards, I apparently shouldn't even be able to express this sentiment. So thanks for not only providing a less than helpful "example" on a relatively simple subject but for insulting a potential reader. I'm sure I'm better off using the knowledge I've procured through years of reading actually insightful material. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61445#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61445#Comments Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:40:49 GMT Grammar Girl grammar AGNETHA, you can make your sentence active like this: Our grandfather planted this tree. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61423#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61423#Comments Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:12:52 GMT AGNETHA grammar could you please help me change the following sentence to active voice "this tree was planted by our grendfather http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61402#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61402#Comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:57:15 GMT AGNETHA grammar can you please help me to undaunted about passive and active voice even more please http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61401#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61401#Comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:54:00 GMT unknown grammar this was very helpful for me. those of you that said it was piontless either didnt read it, or already knew it. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61291#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61291#Comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:27:52 GMT Mohammed Rathi grammar ACTIVE / PASSIVE VOICE http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61287#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=61287#Comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:25:07 GMT Makek mo bilal grammar Best and best in this Zero become hero and He was hero He is hero He will hero When he learn from this we should learn from this when we will learn then we will pass with flying colours http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=60904#Comments http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx?commentid=60904#Comments Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:28:08 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 17:27:05 GMT http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/active-voice-versus-passive-voice.aspx feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Managing Editor) feedback@quickanddirtytips.com (Webmaster) en-us