Category: English / Language Arts
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George Orwell’s Six Rules of Writing (How They Apply to Your Writing and Your Life)
Clear back in April of 1946 (so, seventy-eight years ago at the time of this writing, after the publication of Animal Farm, but before the publication of Nineteen Eighty-four), George Orwell wrote an essay called “Politics and the English Language” that came out in Horizon.3, The whole essay is important and worth reading, so I…
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The Passive Voice (vs The Active Voice)
If you’ve been paying attention to grammar lessons and/or the little red comments that teachers write on your papers (please pay attention to these things and don’t let your teachers’ hard work go to waste!), then you’ve probably heard of the passive voice. And that it’s bad and we shouldn’t use it. But what exactly…