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Creative ways to use the passive voice in writing
The above examples show some formal uses of the passive voice, but some writers take advantage of the shift in emphasis it provides for other reasons. Here are moments when the passive voice is a stylistic decision that suits the author’s writing goals.
1 Avoid getting blamed
There are times when you want to get away with something without making it crystal-clear who’s at fault. The classic example:
“Mistakes were made.” —most politicians
Who made them? Is anyone taking responsibility? What’s the solution here? One political scientist dubbed this structure the “past exonerative” because it’s meant to exonerate a speaker from whatever foul they may have committed. In other words, drop the subject, get off the hook.
2 Beat around the bush
Jane Austen is a master of poking fun at her characters so euphemistically that it seems almost polite, and the passive voice is one of her favorite methods for doing that.
“[He] pressed them so cordially to dine at Barton Park every day till they were better settled at home that, though his entreaties were carried to a point of perseverance beyond civility, they could not give offense.” —Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
Austen could have rephrased this sentence like so:
“Though Mr. Middleton carried his entreaties to a point of perseverance beyond civility, they could not give offense.”
Though maybe she means something closer to:
“Mr. Middleton pushed his invitations beyond the point of politeness and into pushiness, but he still meant well.”
In cases like this, the passive voice allows for more polite phrasing, even if it’s also a little less clear.
3 Make your reader pay more attention to the something
This is like the president getting sworn in: the thing that gets the action of the verb is more important than the people performing the action.
“That treasure lying in its bed of coral, and the corpse of the commander floating sideways on the bridge, were evoked by historians as an emblem of the city drowned in memories.” —Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Here, you could invert the sentence to say “Historians evoked that treasure (and so on).” But that would take the focus away from that oh-so-intriguing treasure and the corpse. And since the historians are less important here, the author makes the choice to stress the key idea of the sentence through the passive voice.
Here’s another famous example that puts the emphasis on what happens to the subject, instead of on what the subject is doing:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” —The Declaration of Independence, 1776
“All men” (and these days, women, too) get boosted to the front of the phrase because their equality and rights are the focus. It makes sense that a statement declaring independence would focus on the people who get that independence, after all.
Despite what any well-meaning English teachers may have told you, none of the sentences above are written in the passive voice. The sentence about the leaves, in fact,was (wrongly) presented as an example of the passive voice by none other than Strunk and White in The Elements of Style
Here’s how to remember: using the verb to be doesn’t automatically put a verb phrase into the passive voice. You also need a past participle. That’s how to keep passive voice masqueraders from fooling you.
Passive voice is summed up here:
The passive voice isn’t a grammatical error; it’s a matter of style. Use the active voice if it makes your sentence sound clearer and more natural. Forming passive voice requires the verb “to be” and a past participle. The passive voice is your friend when the thing receiving an action is the important part of the sentence—especially in scientific and legal contexts, times when the performer of an action is unknown, or cases where the subject is distracting or irrelevant. When it comes to good writing, don’t be passive—even if your sentences sometimes need to be.