Passives Fail

 

Here's a link to the 2009 Chronicle of Higher Education article referenced in this week's podcast. In the article, linguist Geoffrey Pullum points out some problems with Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style," the most shocking of them being that Strunk and White didn't understand passive voice.

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