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For what it's worth, I often find myself defending the passive voice in various contexts. I don't know why the Style Tsars decided to hate in that one, but it'

For what it's worth, I often find myself defending the passive voice in various contexts. I don't know why the Style Tsars decided to hate in that one, but it's really not universally bad.

sokoloff 3y ago
Most of my complaints about excessive/inappropriate use of passive voice are when it's used to obscure a point. "It was decided that we'd do XYZ." rather than "Pat decided that we'd do XYZ."
p0pcult 3y ago
Mistakes were made.
- TomDavey 3y ago
  Excellent example! This sentence contains no actor at all, unless the mistakes made themselves.
  - euroderf 3y ago
    A finger pointing into... thin air.