https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/11/29/passive-voice/ Author of Healing Maddie Brees & Wait, thoughts and practices in waiting on God Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/11/29/passive-voice/#comment-360 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:23:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/11/29/passive-voice#comment-360 OK I am avoiding the whole passive voice subject becasue I am would like to comment on the messy playroom. Oh my! I did not have a paper to write and yesterday when I walked into our playroom I was amazed at the mess two little children can make. Does it ever, EVER enter their minds to put something away? Of course Jack is at the stage where playing consists of just dumping everything out on the floor and then walking away. MADDENING!! Oh those? They were dumped out DAYS ago.

]]> https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.com/2005/11/29/passive-voice/#comment-359 Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:44:00 +0000 https://rebeccabrewsterstevenson.wordpress.com/2005/11/29/passive-voice#comment-359 Ah, yes. The importance of employing *active* voice. It’s one of the three cardinal rules in my composition classes (along with concision and organization). And so hard to do, since we tend to both think and speak in passive voice, making up what we’re saying as we speak. How many times do we start a sentence with a passive construction like “I am so happy that . . .” because we don’t know exactly what we’re going to say until we actually finish our sentence?We humans are pretty lazy.

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