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Mon Oct-04-10 03:06 AM
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| Poll question: The crusade against passive voice |
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Mon Oct-04-10 03:46 AM
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| 1. whatever grammar check says |
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is the law - revise immediately!
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Mon Oct-04-10 03:53 AM
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| 2. There is the saccharine hope that if we cure our grammatical passivity... |
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...we will cure our social and moral passivity as well.
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Mon Oct-04-10 03:53 AM
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| 3. People who say 'passive voice is always bad' are ignorant. |
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Sometimes it works better.
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Mon Oct-04-10 12:06 PM
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| 4. I once called out the great Will Pitt for just that |
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he pwned me by revealing he was using a trick he calls "passive to active", in which he uses passive voice on purpose to set the stage for a real zinger when he switches to active.
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Mon Oct-04-10 12:08 PM
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| 5. This crusade is being enthusiastically joined by me! |
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Mon Oct-04-10 04:25 PM
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Edited on Mon Oct-04-10 04:26 PM by tigereye
How the hell are ya? :hi: on edit, if not for passive voice, I would be out of work!
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Tue Oct-05-10 12:37 PM
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| 8. Good! nice to see a familiar face |
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Tue Oct-05-10 02:15 PM
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| 9. I'm not here a lot, but a bit more lately since work is kinda slow |
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Mon Oct-04-10 04:36 PM
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| 7. Praise the passive voice. The active voice is to be shunned! |
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Tue Oct-05-10 03:20 PM
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| 10. Clearly, passive aggressive voice |
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Tue Oct-05-10 03:50 PM
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| 11. Grammatical mistakes were made. nt |
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Tue Oct-05-10 11:48 PM
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| 12. That is something up with which I shall not put! |
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Oh, sorry-- I meant to post this in the "crusade against sentences that end in propositions" thread
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Wed Oct-06-10 11:39 PM
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| 13. Uh, mistakes were made. |
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