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#WritingTips Contrary to what your English teacher may have taught you, there's nothing wrong with the passive voice at all. There's many reasons to use it, for example if the object of the sentence is more important than the subject.
"DNA was discovered by Rosalind Franklin" if you're writing about DNA, but "Rosalind Franklin discovered DNA" if you're writing about Rosalind Franklin.
Or perhaps no subject at all "funds were stolen"
@techpriest You’re right. The problem I have is that too often people don’t use passive voice in a smart way. Rather, they use passive voice to *sound* smart. It has the opposite effect in those instances.
@iamwill1w9 That's painfully true.
This is used a lot in reporting when you don't want to make speculations or something without proof.
"Funds were stolen" by whom? We don't know yet, but we know they were stolen, it may not even be really that important.