Spell checking will only flag improperly spelled words, not incorrect words. Avoid the Passive Avoid the passive when you construct sentences. Passive constructions tend to make your writing sound scholarly. But passive sentences are also weak and make it seem like you are trying to avoid responsibility for your words. Do not use the passive to avoid having to use I. Just as a refresher, active sentences have both an agent and a patient, or a subject and an object.
Passive constructions have no active subject.
In fact these constructions promote the patient to the agent position and delete the original agent. The student was hit. All chacmools recline on their backs or sides with knees and elbows bent. Example II One way of rewriting a passive sentence is to reinsert the missing agent. Example III Writing sentences as active constructions usually eliminates many extra words.