Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Dialogue, prose, pace & style · Working

Passive voice

Also called: passive construction

ELI5

Sentence construction in which the subject receives the action or the actor is omitted.

Used in conversation

“The passive voice needs to land without a long explanation.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Passive voice” in story, structure & screenplay conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

Connected terms

  • Active voiceComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 4

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.