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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Passive Voice Day 2012

This guy Shaun declared April 27th Passive Voice Day, and wrote a post about it using entirely the passive voice. Language Log praised him for actually using the passive voice correctly throughout. In fact, lots of people (T.A.s, profs) angrily correct instances of what they think is the passive voice--considering all passives to be wrong and evil--that are actually participles and adjectival complements and not passives at all (see a great piece on this here). 

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