I agree that passive voice has valid uses (my parents’ admonitions didn’t bother me just because I didn’t want to be corrected,) but if you try to write stuff that scans well, I don’t think you’ll often err too far on the side of not using it.
I agree that passive voice has valid uses (my parents’ admonitions didn’t bother me just because I didn’t want to be corrected,) but if you try to write stuff that scans well, I don’t think you’ll often err too far on the side of not using it.