Guides
Start with the definition if you are new to the topic, the fix guide if you have a draft in front of you, and the Index if you want numbers.
Understand it
- What is passive voice? — definition, formula, tenses, look-alikes
- What is active voice?
- Active vs passive voice — side by side, with the three tests
- Is passive voice bad? — what the style guides actually say
- When to use passive voice — the five cases
- Is passive voice third person?
Find it and fix it
- How to identify passive voice — three tests and a practice set
- How to fix passive voice — four rewrites
- How to change passive voice to active — tense by tense
- Grammarly’s “passive voice misuse” flag
- Check passive voice in Word
- Check passive voice in Google Docs
Reference
- 100 passive voice examples
- Passive voice verbs — be-forms, 60 irregular participles, look-alike adjectives
- Passive voice in all tenses
- How much passive voice is acceptable? — benchmarks
- Is “was” passive voice? and the other verb-form pages
Practice and print
- Passive voice quiz
- Passive voice worksheet — with answer key
- Cheat sheet PDF