The 4 Most Common Passive Aggressive Phrases People Use At Work

There are four key phrases that experts told HuffPost are prime examples of passive aggression in an office, and you’ve ...
Brandeis University

Making Passive Sentences Active

Teaching students to write in the active voice will significantly strengthen their essays because sentences written in the active voice often have much more impact than those written in the passive ...

If You Ever Want To Be Passive-Aggressive At Work, Here Are 50 Notes To Inspire You (New Pics)

The odds are that you’ve worked with at least one incredibly passive-aggressive person during your career. Usually, this type ...
unr.edu

Stylistic considerations for engineers

Passive and active voice simply refer to the relationship of the subject to the verb. In a sentence using the active voice, the subject of the sentence (doer) performs the action described by the verb ...
Education Week

Want to Improve Early Reading Comprehension? Start With Sentence Structure

“Avoid the passive voice” is a favorite maxim of writing teachers. But for young learners, exposure to passive construction—and other more complex sentences in spoken language—may help children ...
NPR

Passionate About The Passive Voice

50 years after its publication, Strunk & White's "Elements of Style" still influences our thinking about language, particularly our disapproval of the passive voice. But our linguist Geoff Nunberg ...