Passive voice == evil.

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Sun Dec 23 21:20:38 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 23:45 +0300, John Babich wrote:
> 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

Maybe I should have made an exception for either the infinitive or the
Bard?  :-D

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