If you don t believe me, look it up. Avoid letting your sentences trail off into insignificance the way this one seems to be doing. Make your sentences end with a bang. The boy hit the cat. The cat was hit by the boy.
Most people think the sentence with the active verb is more interesting.
Most cats don t care, but they would like to scratch the boy who did the hitting. Sentences in American novels now average 12-15 words. Two hundred years ago, sentences averaged 35-40 words. The positive is usually more interesting than the negative. One catches glimpses of the Capitol while driving on the Capital of Texas Highway.