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see also passive loathing: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf
by naniwaduni 7y ago
see also passive loathing: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf
- Veen 7y agoPullum made an excellent series of videos based on this paper. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNRhI4Cc_QmsihIjUtqro3uBkGG3BC6dk https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNRhI4Cc_QmsihIjUtqro... It’s also worth pointing out that the Mary Dash link makes the error that many “authorities” on writing make by using this as an example of why passives are bad: > My car was driven to work by me. In fact, as Pullum explains, this is simply ungrammatical. No native speaker would ever say it because there is an information structuring constraint on passive clauses that makes this sentence ungrammatical.