Paper Rater: Passive Voice vs Active Voice
blog.paperrater.com › 2015 › 05Sep 29, 2017 · Here are a few occasions where the passive voice may be preferable to the active voice: When the agent is more important than the subject. Take the example: “My car was hit.”. We want to focus on the car itself, since we care more about the car being damaged than we do about who damaged the car. When the agent of action is a secret or an ...