The passive gets a bad rap a lot of the time, but getting rid of passives isn't always the best way to go about things. An approach which forbids all passive ve

The passive gets a bad rap a lot of the time, but getting rid of passives isn't always the best way to go about things. An approach which forbids all passive verbs often results in less readable or less appropriate prose, because there are honestly places where the passive is the correct thing to use. Broadly speaking, it's better to educate yourself about those situations than to treat it as wholly bad and eliminate it entirely. I'd go into more detail, but Language Log has discussed it in great depth: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/+passive+voice http://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://languagelog.ldc.u...