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Originally Posted by glin
As a linguist I read and wrote scientific papers about language for about thirty years : I never thought that some day I should read a whole discussion about the ethical merits of active and passive sentences... Rarely saw as silly a discussion...
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I see the merit of your point. Nevertheless, the Office writing program, Word, has a syntactical corrector and the user can ask that passive sentences be put in evidence. Apparently it is not considered so silly in the English language ...