What is passive style?

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anonymous · Answer

Passive communication is a form of expression that is ineffective and maladaptive. Those with a passive communication style are generally afraid of confrontation and do not feel they have the right to make their wishes and desires known. This style of communication can lead to feelings of anxiety, anger, depression and helplessness and is common among those with social anxiety disorder

anonymous · Answer

does that make sense?

wach · Answer

The passive style in writing is essentially where something is done to the subject, and not the other way around as is normally used. 

Here's an example: 
The ball was kicked by Jeanne. 
versus 
Jeanne kicked the ball. 

The first sentence has the object (Jeanne) doing an action on the subject (the ball), which sounds indirect. It's almost like the sentence flows backward.
The second sentence is more direct, as the subject of the sentence does an action directly to an object. 

Hope that helps.

anonymous · Answer

yeah, i agree with wach. You tend to use the passive style when writing articles.