A lot of people think all sentences that contain a form of the verb “to be” are in passive voice, but that isn’t true. For example, the sentence “I am holding a pen” is in active voice, but it uses the verb “am,” which is a form of “to be.” The passive form of t...
Scholars have engaged in research on the use of passive language, also called passive voice, to describe men’s violence against women since the 1980s (Clark 1965;Henley et al. 1995;Lamb 1991;Penelope 1990). When a sentence is written in active voice, the order of the arrangement of the...