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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