Active / Passive voice The report was written by Nguy n Phan Nam.ễ Passive Voice: Nguy n Phan Nam ễ wrote the report. Active Voice: Active / Passive voice My finger was bitten by a dog. Passive Voice: A dog bit my finger. Active Voice: Active / Passive voice My first visit to Boston will always be remembered by me. Passive Voice: I will always remember my first trip to Boston. Active Voice: Should you ALWAYS use active voice?  (Microsoft Word style and grammar check will always warn you if you have any sentence in passive voice.) When is it OK to use passive voice?  Use passive voice when it makes your writing simpler: Nikola Tesla was regarded as a mad genius. Few people really understood his ideas. Here the writer intends to be unclear about who regards Tesla as a mad genius. Therefore it’s difficult to write the sentence in active voice. About author Hans Anderson  2007-Present: Lecturer at FPT Greenwich Programmes, FPT University.  2007: M.S., Computational Mathematics, University of Minnesota  2001: B.A., Computer Science, Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN . Active / Passive voice The report was written by Nguy n Phan Nam.ễ Passive Voice: Nguy n Phan Nam ễ wrote the report. Active Voice: Active / Passive voice My. a dog. Passive Voice: A dog bit my finger. Active Voice: Active / Passive voice My first visit to Boston will always be remembered by me. Passive Voice: I