Learn active and passive voice with easy rules, examples, and step-by-step explanations. Beginner-friendly grammar guide for students to master voice change.

The passive voice is, after all, grammatically correct. But there's a reason that public relations and communications professionals write in an active voice rather than a passive voice.

Active voice would give you a sentence like the cat (agent/subject) chased the mouse (patient/object). In the passive voice, ...

the passive voice serves an important function in information packaging. Here’s another example of how it does this: Where active voice would separate key ideas, passive voice can unite them.