The agentic passive voice. (opens in new tab)

At some point, you will have learned about the passive voice, where the actor in a sentence is unclear. For example, my software didn’t compile. That’s a good example of the passive voice. However, you might not know the full set of rules, because here are some sentences in the passive voice that you might not recognize: Claude made an error in my writeup. ChatGPT messed up the commitment. Gemini didn’t write tests. You might think those are active sentences, but those are in fact examples ...