But even phrases that really are in the passive voice are often better than their active-voice equivalents, or at least no worse. A Chronicle of Higher Education item by Geoff Pullum of Language ...

Eventually, I learned a brilliant, six-word phrase that I now use to help ... this is to change your communication style from passive to active. “Active communication doesn’t assume someone ...

Namely, I remind myself of a brilliant six-word phrase I learned in a presentation I heard a few years ago: Attack the problem. Not the person. When I get passive ... to a more active solution ...

A sentence that presents two or more serial elements should stick to the same pattern all throughout — all noun forms, all gerund forms ... or when any of its clauses shifts from the active to the ...