Relier Pairs Passive voice Version en ligne Passive voice par García Gutiérrez Juan José 1 The passive voice isn’t a grammatical error; 2 In general, the active voice makes your writing stronger, more direct, and, you guessed it, more active. The subject is something, or it does the action of the verb in the sentence. With the passive voice 3 subject]+[verb (performed by the subject)] +[optional object] it’s a matter of style the subject is acted upon by some other performer of the verb.