[Cadaverous Pallor]

Quickie - I use passive voice all the time and used to get busted for it in school a lot.

I am very bad at telling when I do and don't use it. I only catch it when it's overly obvious. Even then I usually just tell the picky grammarians to suck it. Oftentimes passive sounds better to me; it depends on the application.

I never liked technical grammar rules. I can't translate them to reality and tell you why a sentence sounds well put together or not. It just does or doesn't. I spell this way as well. "I" before "E" yadda yadda - does it look right?