But she is talking about passive attitudes, which can be expressed with the active voice. A lets B do C is active voice; passive would be B is allowed to do C by A.

Learn about using the active and passive voices in this episode of 6 Minute Grammar.

The online column titled, guide to grammar.org. provides these examples: Active: “The executive committee (do-ers) approved the new policy.” (receiver) Passive: “The new policy (receiver) was approved ...

How to Set Up Active & Passive Voice in Microsoft Word 2010. Microsoft Word 2010 can help punch up your document's prose by alerting you when you use passive voice in a sentence.

Image: Swellphotography/Adobe Stock You probably learned about passive and active voice during grade school grammar as I did. In grammatical terms, active voice has an explicit subject, while the ...

In active voice, this sentence would have not one object but two: The industry awarded XYZ Corp (indirect object) a prize (direct object). The passive version moves XYZ Corp to the subject ...

In the passive voice version, the subject of the sentence, “the visitor,” is being acted upon. In the active version, the subject of the sentence, “security guard,” is performing the action.

Passive voice means that the object of a transitive verb is made the grammatical subject of the clause. To see what that means, let’s start with an active-voice sentence: Katie wrecked the car.

The passive voice comes into play to soften the message or idea a business writer is trying to convey. Examples of this are evident in documents such as credit denial letters.

“Active verbs move action and reveal actors. Passive verbs emphasize the receiver, the victim.” - Vicki Krueger In journalism, an active voice is generally preferred over a passive one.