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[lizzybennet]

Currently listening to Nouvelle Vague. She does covers of The Cure, Echo and the Bunnymen, Lords of the New Church and many other old school punk rockers. Yet, she her style is more jazzy, almost bossa nova. I love it. Chris and I first stumbled upon her while sitting in an Italian cafe in Kunming. Ah, the memories.

And, btw, now I can't write anything in this dang journal without wondering/worrying that I'm writing in passive voice! Drat.

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[themenow.livejournal.com]

Hrrmmm...she sounds really cool. I'll have to check her out.

What is passive voice? I thought it was the same thing you thought it was. So what did it turn out to be?

[mysteena.livejournal.com]

I think you'll like her music. It's soothing yet a bit funky.

Passive voice:

form of "to be" + past participle = passive voice

For example:

The metropolis has been scorched by the dragon's fiery breath.

When her house was invaded, Penelope had to think of ways to delay her remarriage.

**NOTE: the passive voice is marked by a form of "to be" + the past participle--not a form of "have" alone + the past participle, as some students believe. So don't let the combination of "have" and "to be" fool you. In the next section, we discuss why you often want to avoid using the passive voice, but let's briefly look at how to change passive constructions into active ones. You can usually just switch the order, making the actor and subject one--putting the doer up front:

The dragon scorched the metropolis with his fiery breath.

After suitors invaded Penelope's house, she had to think of ways to fend them off.

To repeat, the key to identifying the passive voice is to look for both a form of "to be" and a past participle, which usually, but not always, ends in "-ed."

(I copied this from a website)

[themenow.livejournal.com]

OMG! I write like that all the time! Yikes! This is horrible. Will you catch me at it? I'll try to catch you.

[mysteena.livejournal.com]

It's a deal. The irony here is that I thought this was just my style of writing. When chris tried to correct me in the past, I got angry at him for trying to change my wording into his own. Whoops.

[themenow.livejournal.com]

*lol* I kept catching myself even talking like that! hee hee