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Agreed...I don't fall in the group that believes passive voice is never correct. That's crazy talk. I just think when something happens, it should happen as directly as possible in fiction. One of my pet peeves is when someone says "He could hear them from where he stood," when "He heard them" works just fine. It's right up there for me with lines like (I actually saw this in a book). "He kicked it with his foot." How else, pray tell, could he kick it? Even if he used someone else's foot, he'd be HITTING it then, right?
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