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spellbanisher · 11-13-2010, 12:12 PM

There is one correction I would like to make from my previous post. Something expressed in the active voice is usually expressed positively. So someone using the active voice would not say "Roman's didn't built Rome in a day;" they would say something like "The Romans needed a long time to build Rome" or "It took a long time for the Romans to build Rome." Still, with this maxim I can't think of an instance where the active voice is as succinct and memorable as "Rome wasn't built in a day."

11-13-2010, 12:12 PM	#17
spellbanisher Guru Posts: 826 Karma: 6566849 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Bay Area Device: kindle keyboard, kindle fire hd, S4, Nook hd+	There is one correction I would like to make from my previous post. Something expressed in the active voice is usually expressed positively. So someone using the active voice would not say "Roman's didn't built Rome in a day;" they would say something like "The Romans needed a long time to build Rome" or "It took a long time for the Romans to build Rome." Still, with this maxim I can't think of an instance where the active voice is as succinct and memorable as "Rome wasn't built in a day." Last edited by spellbanisher; 11-13-2010 at 12:36 PM.