For the next six weeks we will be posting content that has been derived from our years of experience proofreading and editing work for our clients. Specifically, we will explore some of the most common pitfalls that we encounter in the work that we process. The first pitfall that we see often is this—passive versus active voice. Now, many English speakers will have no idea what this means. Our generation has been educated in English literature, but not English grammar. It was