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Learning new tricks

November 6, 2012 by Nicole 1 Comment


The first editor to look at Feel the Burn pointed out
my over use of the passive voice. Now I won’t lie, I knew what she meant but didn’t really understand HOW to fix them. So I had a hunt on Kindle and found
this book
How to Swat the KILLER B’s out of your writing byNancy Owens Barnes
If I were to recommend any book for understanding and
annihilating the passive voice, this would be it! In short I hunted out the
following words.
Words to watch out for!
am – is –
are – was – were – be – being – been
You can of course just use this wee cheat sheet to
help, but I really can’t recommend Nancy’s book enough. I’ve read on
passive/active before and it confused the heck out of me. Too often people
write blog posts on this subject yet quite obviously don’t really understand
it. So I’m not going to try to explain it any further, I’m just going to
recommend that if you ever need to understand it, buy this book! 
Take care all!
Nic
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  1. Donna Hosie says

    November 6, 2012 at 7:37 am

    Really helpful. Thank you.

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