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> To the NY Times: please don't say they died by suicide. The passive voice “X died by suicide” is a sentence in the active voice. “Die” is an intransitive ver
by foldr 1y ago
> To the NY Times: please don't say they died by suicide. The passive voice
“X died by suicide” is a sentence in the active voice. “Die” is an intransitive verb and cannot be passivized in English.
- slacktivism123 1y agoPlease don't do this kind of tangential grammar nitpicking here. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less.
- foldr 1y agoI’m not nitpicking the poster’s grammar, I’m nitpicking the claim about the grammatical structure of a particular sentence that’s the factual basis of their criticism of the article.