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Using extraposition for emphasis
IN the previous two columns we took up the use of the passive voice and of cleft sentences to draw attention to a particular aspect of the sentence that we want to emphasize. We saw that these ...
Active voice would give you a sentence like the ... what linguist Geoff Pullum calls the “fear and loathing of the English passive” and to the confusion around it. Take The Elements of Style ...
Again, let's look closely at this basic English clause pattern ... The choice between the active voice and the passive voice, then, isn't just a matter of grammar. It strikes at the heart ...
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