Friday, April 15, 2011

The "It's Nearly Impossible To Believe That This VidShizzle Exists" VidShizzle.



5 comments:

  1. AnonymousApril 15, 2011 at 11:55 AM

    Even worse, people actually believe that "active sentences have more life."

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  2. Ack-ademicApril 15, 2011 at 12:36 PM

    Ohhhh! So if I want to make the sentence active, I just add 'movement' to it (preferably of the 'doggie' kind):

    Active: "The rope was being pulled by two dogs." RIGHT?

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  3. Charlotte IssyvooApril 15, 2011 at 4:42 PM

    Ack, I like you!

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  4. iantheApril 16, 2011 at 11:58 AM

    This is so absolutely ridiculous from a linguistic point of view that I want to scream. The inability to distinguish the semantic role of "agent" from the syntactic function of "subject" ought to preclude the writer from saying anything, anytime, anywhere about sentences.

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  5. Ack-ademicApril 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM

    @Issyvoo. Thank you. :o) I think we teach the same students, you and me.

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