Often, the goal of writing is to inform the reader. News articles, handwritten notes, emails, Facebook posts — they can all give the reader information he didn't already have. But sometimes when ...

Does the passive voice lend itself to biased, manipulative writing? A reader named Richard wanted to know after witnessing a discussion about a news article. “Someone criticized an article on politics ...

In English, we can talk about the present and past in both the active voice and passive voice.The active voice focuses on the agent or person or thing doing the action. Alice sent Mary a birthday card ...