On Dec 23, 2007 11:11 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote: <snip> > Here is one way to test for unnecessary passive voice. If the sentence > includes a form of the verb "to be... <bad things happen> Thanks to Paul, we now know that the answer to Hamlet's famous soliloquy is "NOT to be." BR, John "Ho Ho Ho" Babich