Passive Aggravation
Thanks to Language Log, I now have a handy resource regarding the passive, for next time someone scolds me for using it. It may take me a far amount of time to sort through it and figure out whether any given thing I’ve written actually is passive – I’ve read the post several times and I can’t say as I’ve absorbed it all yet. But heck, it’s all there, somewhere.
[…] of it, I suspect, originates from Strunk and White, which is problematic to begin with and becomes downright incoherent after people have played a game of telephone with it for a while […]
» Hell, There Are No Rules Here – We’re Trying to Accomplish Something The Blue Candle Society said this on August 30, 2011 at 9:11 pm