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oh_my_goodness on Jan 28, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Passive in English (2011)

Absolutely. The grammarians George Orwell and E.B. White are infamous for doing nothing with language except complaining about it.

msla on Jan 28, 2023 | [–]

Given what they wrote about language itself, they didn't understand it as well as they thought they did.

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