Passive Voice Checker

Detect passive voice in your writing, see highlighted matches, and get active voice suggestions.

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How it works

This tool scans your text for passive voice constructions and highlights them so you can revise for clarity and directness. All analysis runs entirely in your browser.

• Passive voice detection: identifies sentences containing a form of “to be” (is, was, were, been, being, etc.) followed by a past participle. This covers simple passives (“was written”), perfect passives (“has been approved”), and modal passives (“will be completed”).
• Highlighted preview: passive constructions are underlined and highlighted directly in your text so you can see them in context. This makes it easy to spot patterns in your writing.
• Active voice suggestions: for each passive sentence, the tool provides a tip on how to restructure it into active voice by identifying the doer of the action and making it the subject.
• When passive is acceptable: passive voice is not always wrong. It is appropriate when the doer is unknown, unimportant, or when you want to emphasize the action or its recipient. Aim for fewer than 10–15% passive sentences in most writing.

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