Many commentators, notably George Orwell in his essay "Politics and the English Language" and Strunk & White in The Elements of Style, have urged minimizing use of the passive voice.
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Jan Freeman of The Boston Globe states "all good writers use the passive voice" – including Orwell and Strunk & White themselves, in the sections of their essays criticizing the passive voice.
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The "past exonerative" tense is a witticism coined by William Schneider of the New York Times to describe the rhetorical tactic of speaking in the passive voice in order to distance oneself from blame.
The object–verb–subject sequence also occurs in Interlingua, although the Interlingua Grammar makes no mention of it excepting passive voice.