Let's read something sensible about the passive voice and passive constructions

At one time I was in a writing group which consisted of very nice people who wrote very nice things. Somehow it depressed me, and I nearly gave up for good during that experience. I don't know why, but it has made me shy of writing groups ever since.

But there was a thing that happened. One evening one of the very nice people in my group said I was using the passive too much. I was all earts, because I am always looking for ways to tame my writing quirks. But none of the examples he pulled out were passives. I was just floored. He was an educated person whose own writing was really wonderful. Then I was floored all over again when the rest of the group pretty much agreed with him, including two very accomplished published writers. Mostly he pulled out every use of the verb "to be" and called it a passive, no matter what the verb was actually doing. But there were other bad examples as well.

I decided that he was therefore probably objecting to something that was not in the grammar, some passive quality of the story. So there was something ineffable wrong with the story (this is how I think). And he was unable to articulate it, so he blamed it on a grammar bugaboo.

Anyway, here's Geoff Pullum's article on the passive voice, what it is, what it isn't, and all its glories. I strongly recommend you read it before you get swept up in another passive voiice argument.