In the face of passive aggression, maintaining your composure is vital. Emotions can run high, but reacting impulsively often exacerbates the situation. Take a moment to breathe deeply and collect ...

Apologies don’t always come wrapped in the words “I’m sorry.” In fact, some people dodge accountability by dressing up their ...

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 ...

The passive voice is an important grammatical structure that appears in every form of written and spoken English. Knowledge of this construction is vital for reading and writing English in everyday ...

“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 ...

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 ...