Learn how to use the active and passive voice with BBC Bitesize KS3 English.

How to Set Up Active & Passive Voice in Microsoft Word 2010. Microsoft Word 2010 can help punch up your document's prose by alerting you when you use passive voice in a sentence.

Using the active voice emphasizes the person or agent who performs an action. Using the passive voice emphasizes the recipient of the action, or sometimes the action itself. Take a look at the ...

Improve your public relations and marketing communications by writing in an active voice. Learn best practices for using the active vs. passive voice.

Passive Voice: "Responsible for answering phones and directing calls." Active Voice: "Answered calls and directed lines to the appropriate individual." See how the first example makes it sound ...

Both sentence pairs make sense. Both describe the same facts. However, in each pair one sentence uses the active voice and one uses the passive voice. Which sentence would you use? That would ...