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Passive Voice Checker

Find passive voice sentences in any text. Highlights each passive construction and suggests the active alternative. Free and instant.

The Passive Voice Checker is a free online tool that helps you find passive voice sentences in any text. highlights each passive construction and suggests the active alternative. free and instant It runs in your browser with no sign-up, downloads, or installation needed. All processing happens locally — your data stays on your device.
Passive Voice Checker

How to use

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What is passive voice?

Passive voice happens when the subject of a sentence receives the action rather than performs it. "The report was written by the team" is passive. "The team wrote the report" is active — shorter, clearer and more direct. Most style guides recommend keeping passive voice below 15% of sentences.

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Not all passive is bad

Passive voice is sometimes appropriate — when the agent is unknown ("The window was broken"), when emphasising the recipient ("The prize was awarded to all students") or in formal scientific writing. The goal is awareness and deliberate choice, not elimination.