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Passive Voice Detector
Find the passive constructions in your text and decide whether each one earns its place.
Find passive voice
Passive constructions will be listed here.
Paste some text to begin.
How to use the Passive Voice Detector
- Paste the text you want to scan for passive voice.
- Choose how strict the matching should be.
- Click Detect and rewrite the sentences that read better in active voice.
Features
- Finds a form of to be followed by a past participle
- Shows the matching phrase and its whole sentence
- Three match strengths including a by phrase mode
- A short hint for rewriting each hit in active voice
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Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the free online passive voice detector.
Paste your text and click Detect. Every match of a to be verb plus a past participle is
listed with its sentence and a rewrite hint.
A form of the verb to be, such as is, was or been, followed by a past participle, as in the
report was written.
Participles such as tired or interested often work as plain adjectives, and the tool cannot
always tell the difference from the words alone.
It only lists matches followed by by or with, which are the clearest passive constructions
and produce far fewer false alarms.
No. Passive voice is useful when the doer is unknown or unimportant. Aim to reduce it, not to
eliminate it.
Move the doer to the front and use an active verb, so the report was written by Ana becomes
Ana wrote the report.
No. It reports the pattern and offers a hint. The decision about meaning stays with you.
Yes. Longer texts simply produce more matches, and all of them are listed in the results
table.
No. The scan happens in your browser with plain string matching, so nothing is sent or
stored.
Last updated: October 10, 2026