When I was in college, we were sternly told that when we described our lab
work, it should always be in the impersonal and passive voice. Thus
Fifty-seven cubic centimeters of water were added to the soil mixture
containing three varieties of petunia seed.
Hey! Wake up! No snoring on
As a Physics student, I have always written all of my reports in the
passive voice (and ignored the grammar checks that tell me that tell
me off for doing so :o) ) However, recently, schools have been
encouraged to get down if certain sections are in the passive
voice. I find it very hard to
As the smallest child in the family of 5, her brothers often made her
the victim of their practical jokes
This states firmly that her brothers are the smallest child.
I'm not at all sure how a set of brothers can be the smallest child,
but that's what the sentence *says*.
I think my
