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.

Plus, a simple trick that will help you identify most true cases of the passive voice. (Hint: It involves zombies.) ...

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Now let’s learn how to detect passive voice when writing in Word. How to use Word to find passive voice. If using Microsoft 365, you have a new editing feature — Editor.

In the Reddit AMA, Celia Elliott, a grant writing specialist in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois, took a stand on behalf of the passive voice, but to do so she first had to ...