Both sentence pairs make sense. Both describe the same facts. However, in each pair one sentence uses the active voice and one uses the passive voice. Which sentence would you use? That would depend ...
Regarding the April 27 Bilingual page article, "Stop worrying and embrace the passive tense": Sorry to nitpick, but I think someone writing a column on language is obliged to be careful about ...
Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 11: When Being Done Replaced Doing Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab As a language evolves, words, phrases, and even whole tenses ...
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