CSPAN2 Book TV November 23, 2014
What is called the evasive passive. And accordingly, all the classic style guides advice against using the passive voice. Use the active voice. The active voice is usually more direct and vigorous than the passive. Many sentences can be made lively by substituting a transgent for a per puncher to perfunctory. Notice something fishingal the advice . It uses the passive voice to tell people not to use the passive voice. Similarly, the other iconic body of advice for writing happed out to every college freshman, George Orwells politics of the english language in which he says a mixture of vague y...