Incorrect detection of the passive voice in Yoast SEO

The readability analysis of Yoast SEO assesses whether or not you use passive voice. Yoast SEO and Yoast SEO Premium currently support the passive voice analysis for the languages listed on this page. The passive voice is a grammatical construction that you should avoid using too much throughout your text. In a few exceptional cases, Yoast SEO wrongfully detects the passive voice. Here, we’ll highlight in which cases.

Human languages are often very irregular. It’s not always possible to achieve complete accuracy when automatically analyzing texts. In some exceptional cases, the passive voice analysis might fail to detect passive voice, or it might incorrectly detect passive voice when it isn’t there. We’ve compiled a few cases that might occur in specific languages.

• English
• German
• French
• Spanish
• Polish

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