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 ...

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 ...

Use the passive voice when you don’t know who is doing ... rather than focusing on who or what is doing the action. For example: Le bâtiment a été construit en 1990.

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 ...

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 ...