Timeline for Techniques to get rid of "was" and make one's writing more engaging
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| Apr 25, 2023 at 15:30 | answer | added | codeMonkey | timeline score: 0 | |
| Aug 26, 2022 at 18:19 | answer | added | Francis | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 20, 2015 at 9:05 | vote | accept | wyc | ||
| Oct 20, 2015 at 9:05 | vote | accept | wyc | ||
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| Oct 2, 2015 at 3:08 | comment | added | wyc | You guys are right. How about the new title? | |
| Oct 2, 2015 at 3:08 | history | edited | wyc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2015 at 23:55 | answer | added | Kate S. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 21:22 | comment | added | Kate S. | Yeah, Ken's right. Your example isn't passive voice. A "passive voice" version of that sentence would be "I was made happy" or something similar. | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 20:45 | answer | added | Josh | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 18:33 | answer | added | Thom | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 18:14 | comment | added | Ken Mohnkern | I'm not sure that your examples use passive voice. Passive means, I think, that the subject of the sentence is missing: "Dogs were walked." The way to avoid this case is to add the subject to the sentence: "We walked the dogs." It seems that you're trying to get rid of "was" verbs, which are sometimes perfectly fine. In fact, in some cases I prefer your "bad" examples to the "improved ones." Maybe you could explain the problem you're trying to fix? | |
| Oct 1, 2015 at 13:14 | history | edited | wyc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2015 at 12:58 | history | edited | wyc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2015 at 12:47 | history | asked | wyc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |