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Use MS Word's "Readability Statistics" to monitor and reduce use of passive voice. How to view readability statistics
Use of passive voice can create awkward sentences.
Overuse of passive voice throughout a passage can cause your prose to seem flat and uninteresting.
Use of passive voice in long and complicated sentences can cause readers to lose interest or to become confused.
Passive voice leads to dangling modifiers. (A dangling modifier is a word or phrase that modifies a word not clearly stated in the sentence.)
Last Updated: November 3, 2009