Do you like using the "passive voice"?

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The use of the passive voice in the indicative mood, whilst a valid configuration of the english language, is a form of expression to which the individual of which your interlocutor is in the habit of referring to with the perpendicular pronoun is not positively disposed.

I sometimes do it for a laugh. Like instead of saying, ''why?'', I sometimes say, ''explain!'' or, ''proceed to an explanation''. I've even entered a room with my cousin before and said, ''right, I will push this switch on the wall, which is connected to the trusty light bulb which is presented on the ceiling, notice the light bulb is now been activated, forming a vast ray of light around the small room.'' I don't normally talk like this, I only do to amuse my cousin because he finds it funny. We sometimes talk like it to eachother, just for fun.

No, the passive voice is not frequently used by me (at least not when I notice it -- unless, of course, I'm doing it intentionally ). When it is used by me, my sentences are muddy and strange.

My friend's wife is in college right now, and she asked me to review an essay she had to write for one of her classes, and I annotated the thing in MS Office -- she wrote 99% of it in passive voice, and I corrected all of the problematic sentences in the annotations.

She disregarded all of my comments and bragged when she got a B on the essay.