As I said above, it is appropriate to use the passive voice when it clarifies your meaning. Here is an appropriate example: "In the past three decades, interest in the discipline of communication has ...

One way to avoid using the passive voice is to look for a ‘by’ phrase. Rewrite the sentence so that the subject in the 'by' phrase is closer to the beginning of the sentence. For example ...

Denying feelings of anger is classic passive-aggressive behavior. Rather than being upfront and honest when questioned about ...

THERE are times when we just feel that even the passive voice falls short of giving us the desired emphasis for what we want to say. That's when we take recourse to a peculiar grammar device that we ...

The passive voice is the marked voice ... The implication is in the \semantics. In (18), for example, the theme is required, but the agent is optional. In semantics there is always an agent, even if ...

In English, there are two voices--active and passive. If the subject of a sentence performs the action of the verb, the verb is said to be in the "active voice"; for example: I stopped. I bathed. The ...