Free Passive Voice Detector
Find passive sentences and write with more punch.
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About the Passive Voice Detector
Free passive voice detector. Paste your writing to highlight likely passive sentences — a form of 'to be' plus a past participle — so you can rewrite them in clearer, more active language. Runs in your browser.
How it works
- 1
Paste text
Any writing you want to check.
- 2
See the flags
Passive sentences highlighted with a count.
- 3
Rewrite
Turn the flagged ones active.
Frequently asked questions
No. It's useful when the doer is unknown or unimportant. But overusing it makes writing vague, so it's worth spotting.
It's a heuristic — it catches common patterns like 'was written' but may miss or over-flag some cases. Use it as a guide.