Rewrite Passive Voice — and When Not To
Added 2026-11-04
Active voice is clearer, except when hiding the actor is the point.
Here is a passage with passive sentences. Do: 1) make the ones you can active, naming who does what; 2) mark the ones that should stay passive — actor unknown, irrelevant, or neutrality needed; 3) judge whether the original uses passive voice to dodge responsibility; 4) reread and note the tone change; 5) give one rule for when to keep the passive.
Site original
Chinese original
How to use
被动句最大的问题不是「弱」，是「把责任人藏了」。
Try tweaking it
- Ask for three openings in different tones, then pick one.
- Replace "make it better" with concrete limits: length, reader, facts to keep.
What you should get
- A publishable draft, not an outline
- A short changelog: what changed and why
Common mistakes
- Letting it guess the facts, so plausible-looking sources get invented.
- Dumping the whole text with just "polish it" — the result still has no point.
How to check the output
- The conclusion comes first; deleting the opening paragraph does not break it.
- Every fact, number and quote traces back to the source text.
Where it works
- Good for: turning a rambling draft into a conclusion-first, shorter version.
- Watch out: keep sources and figures verbatim — do not let it invent citations.