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Good catch, I did in fact get a B in grammar. Is there a term for this? "This nonsense should cease" does differ from "you should go" in that it demands an act
by improbable22 7y ago
Good catch, I did in fact get a B in grammar.
Is there a term for this? "This nonsense should cease" does differ from "you should go" in that it demands an action on an inanimate thing, while avoiding saying who acts.
- jcranmer 7y agoDon't feel too bad, most people can't detect passive voice correctly. Hell, Strunk's Elements of Style, when discussing the avoidance of passive voice, has four examples of clunky writing that can be rewritten to use the active voice, except three of them are already in active voice.