: Re: Should I completely eliminate passive voice I have read that a lot of passive voice deadens the story to 2 dimensional even if you are just trying to show something that takes time when you

Completely eliminate? No.

In general, prefer active voice unless you have a specific reason to use passive.

Some reasons to use passive voice:

You don't know who did the action. I was carjacked on February 19, 1999. (True story.)
You wish to hide or deemphasize responsibility the action.
The person who did it is not important to the sentence at hand.
You wish to focus the reader on the effects of the action. After Hiroshima was bombed in August, 1945...
Passive voice creates a better rhythm or pace for your sentence. (Be careful with this one. Often a better solution is to recast the sentence or the context in which it appears.)

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