The great thing about being a grammar expert is you don’t have to know anything about grammar to be one. Just launch a blog, say whatever you think is true and bask in the certainty that no one will ...
Active to Passive Voice Rules & Examples: Understanding active and passive voice is a key step in mastering English grammar, especially for students aiming to improve their writing and communication ...
Does the passive voice lend itself to biased, manipulative writing? A reader named Richard wanted to know after witnessing a discussion about a news article. “Someone criticized an article on politics ...
I am not prepared to engage in the Passive Wars. As with any dispute, however, it behooves us to know what the heck it is we’re fighting about. As my colleague Geoffrey Pullum and others have observed ...
The participles are those forms of the verb which partake of the nature of both verbs and adjectives. There are two participles: the present participle and the past participle – speaking, spoken, ...