Myth Busted: Passive Voice Is Not Significantly Harder To Read/Comprehend
Are passive voice sentences really harder to read? I hear this a lot as a reason to not use, or to at least use sparingly, the passive voice in writing. So I decided to do a little test. I took a series of sentences and wrote them in both the passive and active voice. I then checked their readability statistics using Microsoft Word’s native tool for this.
Example 1:
Active: “I mailed the letter.”
Flesch Reading Ease: 97
Flesch-Kincade Grade Level: 0.7 Read more…
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