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Active voice vs passive voice (and other kinds of voice)

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- 25th May 2018 at 9:43 pm #1198
  
  jeffjohns
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  Can someone please explain what voice is?
  
  My SEO thing keeps telling me I use too much passive voice when I write. How does passive voice differ from active?
- 17th July 2018 at 10:34 am #1296
  Matthew Brown
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  In a nutshell:
  
  Active: the thing does the stuff
  Passive: the stuff is done by the thing
  
  Basically, if yoast is whinging, ask it to highlight the sentences and then think about other more lively ways to say things.
  - This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by Matthew Brown.
- 20th February 2019 at 2:52 pm #1610
  
  Jason Latnar
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  What he said.
- 15th June 2019 at 5:13 pm #1984
  
  Bob Bobson
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  This would be a great blog post, don’t you think.
  - 15th June 2019 at 5:14 pm #1985
    Matthew Brown
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    Funny you should mention that.
    
    Stop worrying about active or passive voice
    
    This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Matthew Brown.
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