Thread:Gsbr/@comment-4655954-20150531041202/@comment-2253059-20150531232037

Right, I know you don't have it in you to admit you got the voice of that sentence wrong. Anyways...

“Wrong. Entirely incorrect. The active voice is not ‘grammatically incorrect’ simply because Active Voice and Passive Voice are not grammatical concepts they are style of writing. Here, again, is the link I provided for you above that explains for you what Active and Passive voice is, because it’s obvious at this point that you don’t actually understand either one of them. - https://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/CCS_activevoice.html Scroll down and you will see that there are times where the passive voice is the more preferred style of writing.”

Strawman. I didn’t say active voice is grammatically correct (and you’re not even quoting me correctly). I said the passive voice example “sounds” more correct. Doesn’t mean it actually is more correct. Incidentally, the examples in your link support the argument I was making about how the English language typically demands to know who performed an action. The scenarios cited by the link gave a specific reason to why the person who performed the action wasn’t named; the person would receive negative attention, the person is not known, and the person’s action is made more authoritative by not identifying him or her. Under regular circumstances, the person who performed the action would be known.