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59: Hank's Disaster Preparedness Plan

Dear Hank & John

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The Passive Voice Is Not a Bad Idea

Hank: I think what may be going on is that teacher was trying to discourage you or your fellow students from using the passive voice in your writing. A, but that is not actually a matter of removing all to be verbs from your vocabulary. It's just a matter of not using the Passive voice. John: Yes, i have to side with the student. In favour of to be or not, but having some kind of a to be verb in your vocabulary. Hank: There are languages that do not have those to be verbs in them. And and we aren't, we aren't going to change that,. because so much of the way we communicate involves to be verbs.

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