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When you write in active voice, it means that you're using a standard [subject] [verb] [object] sentence.

Jack killed Mary.

When you use the passive voice, it means that you reverse the subject and the object from the active form.

Mary was killed by Jack.

The meaning of the sentence is the same: Jack is doing some killing. Yet Jack is not the subject and killing is not the main verb. The sentence emphasizes all the wrong parts of itself by being put in this order. It uses more words and the picture it gives isn't as clear. When an action is performed, make sure you use that word as the action verb, and you will do just fine.

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