Posted by Alex Forbes on January 28, 2008 at 17:46:19 from 4.242.120.106 user Pitsligo.
In Reply to: Re: Grammar posted by Peter Ceresole on January 28, 2008 at 13:06:22:
A last bastion of passive voice usage can be found in our science labs
Yes, and doesn't it make experiment reports far more tedious than they need be?
It's HORRID. I edit my wife's papers --she's a microbial ecologist-- and past passive impersonal is like nails on a blackboard. Thank fortune there's a trend away from it.