Writing in the active voice makes the meaning clear while keeping sentences from becoming complicated and wordy. Sentences using passive voice are not necessarily wrong, just less effective than ...

Active voice would give you a sentence like the cat (agent/subject) chased the mouse (patient/object). In the passive voice, ...

The term “voice,” as a linguistic category, indicates the relationship between the subject of a sentence and its verb. In English, there are two voices--active and passive. If the subject of a ...