Word will offer more advice, including identifying passive verbs you might change to active.
As you finish a sentence, Word may underline a passive verb in green.Click OK to confirm the proofing options.It’s just the label Microsoft have used for this function). Under “When connecting spelling and grammar in Word”, tick these boxes:.Failing that, follow both sets of instructions below. You may find that the other has picked up the same settings. If you use both Word and Outlook, try setting one program to detect passive verbs, then close both and re-open them. They may not even show how many passive verbs the program has found.
And the statistics don’t show how many passive verbs there are in the document. You can only reach them after you finish a spelling and grammar check on the whole document. The readability statistics are less useful.
If you want to write in the active voice, use what help Outlook and Word can give, especially the feature that underlines passive verbs in green as you type. It won’t detect the other two (were set out, will be provided).If you edit that out, it shows you another (will be sent).Word 2010 has underlined a passive verb (can be found).Word and Outlook are normally right when they identify a passive verb. Word and Outlook detect some passive verbs