/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19232508]

>finally achieved 0% passive sentences
Are you a good writer?

[Anonymous No.19232545]

>>19232508
Why is English (or the way English is taught) so obsessed with avoiding passive sentences?
There's no such stigma in Italian: if it better emphasizes a certain part of the phrase, so be it.

[Anonymous No.19232573]

>>19232508
>He doesn't purposely complicate his work so brainlets won't be able to understand it, and in the future the actual meaning and intent of the work will be hotly debated

[Anonymous No.19232574]

i dont even know what a pasive sentence is, i just write what i want how i want

[Anonymous No.19232581]

>>19232545
They're too complicated for the average american

[Anonymous No.19232940]

>>19232545
It is not really taught unless you take an actual writing class. We learn active and passive voice but not how and when to use them so in casual language there is little concern for active vs passive. Problem comes when you start writing, if you switch back and fourth without sense it will read poorly if your sentence is structured for object when you are talking about agent. Some people obsess over it because they read a style guide that recommends avoiding passive voice and they have hangups regarding what they think passive implies, that passive voice is the voice of passive people.

This is a prime example of the failure of prescriptive grammar, making rules for when and when not to use active or passive is nearly impossible so the guides fall back too being vague or simplistic instead of just dedicating a page or two to understanding active vs passive voice which would allow one simple rule based on if you want to stress object or agent.

[Anonymous No.19233315]

>>19232508

My novel somehow achieved a Flesch Reading Ease of 75.9, a Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level of 4.8, and 2% passive sentences.

That seems too good to be true. I wonder if Word didn't hiccup or something.

[Anonymous No.19234749]

>>19232940
Active for agent, passive for object, right?

[Anonymous No.19234771]

>>19232545
In scientific writing, passive voice is actually preferred.

[Anonymous No.19235194]

>>19232940
Journalists master the passive voice whenever one of their pet causes does something bad, no Black riot or Islamic terror attack has an agent.

[Anonymous No.19235199]

>>19232508
Da fuck is a passive sentence lmao, one that doesn't have enough phonetic variation?

[Anonymous No.19235201]

If you think that fiction must be written in the simplest way possible you are not a good writer or human

[Anonymous No.19235212]

>>19232508
Simple is... le GOOD

[Anonymous No.19235255]

>>19235212
it is

[Anonymous No.19235259]

>>19232574
big dicked post