By Diana | Published:
September 5, 2009
A colleague called me the other day. He offered to buy me a latte if I could help him figure out what was so bad about passive voice. I met him at the coffee shop on campus.
I sipped my latte and explained that passive voice does not mean that your sentence is long and dangly, lacks action, uses [...]
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By Diana | Published:
April 30, 2009
I recently had the chance to lurk during a heated debate about the use of the apostrophe-- I know, I know, that may not count as "heated" where you come from, but among some English teachers and writing coaches, these things matter more than the Super Bowl and World Series combined.
I'll add another post or two [...]
Posted in Advice | Tagged punctuation |