At the risk of sounding passive-aggressive, I have a bone to pick. You see, I work with a lot of government and scientific writers. So I see acronyms, abbreviations, bureaucratic language, technical jargon, and long sentences on a daily basis. They don’t scare me. I’ve fought the dragons of conjunctions at the beginning of sentences, […]
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Getting Aggressive with the Passive
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