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Re: Passive voice == evil.

From: "John Babich" <jmbabich gmail com>
To: "For participants of the Documentation Project" <fedora-docs-list redhat com>
Subject: Re: Passive voice == evil.
Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:45:28 +0300

On Dec 23, 2007 11:11 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster 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

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