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With a more conventional sentence structure, the sentence would have answered the question "_who_ is concerned that the figure is wrong?" I'm not enough of a la
by jepler 4y ago
With a more conventional sentence structure, the sentence would have answered the question "_who_ is concerned that the figure is wrong?" I'm not enough of a language lawyer in English to say whether this is truly a passive-voice sentence in the most technical of senses, but I think the ancestor post was getting at a valid, er, concern about the writing.
- jcranmer 4y agoCall it the exonerative voice instead of thinking that everything mangled to avoid accusing somebody must be the passive voice. For bonus points, identify the use of the passive voice in the previous sentence--not every use of the passive is exonerative, just as you can be exonerative without using the passive.