Question about grammar...

Ghoulish Delight · 09-29-2006, 02:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

For the record, when you write for someplace with a standard styleguide they will usually prohibit passive voice to a stupid degree. Here is a recent Language Log (a great blog by the way by descriptivist, rather than prescriptivist, linguists)

"Deliciously"? Me thinks these folks are a bit too into grammar.

Alex · 09-29-2006, 02:53 PM

These folks are academic linguistics professors and researchers so I imagine they are way too far into it.

But it is a good blog if a bit technical at times, particularly when they talk about etymology and word choice shifts.

MBC, can you post sample sentences that confuse you as to why they're in passive? Keep in mind, as well, that Word is not a perfect grammarian and it may get confused as well as to how you're really using a word compared to how it thinks you are.

09-29-2006, 02:53 PM	#2
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	These folks are academic linguistics professors and researchers so I imagine they are way too far into it. But it is a good blog if a bit technical at times, particularly when they talk about etymology and word choice shifts. MBC, can you post sample sentences that confuse you as to why they're in passive? Keep in mind, as well, that Word is not a perfect grammarian and it may get confused as well as to how you're really using a word compared to how it thinks you are.
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