{"id":18280,"date":"2020-08-14T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18280"},"modified":"2020-08-14T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T19:18:20","slug":"the-voice-was-passivized-by-the-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2020\/08\/14\/the-voice-was-passivized-by-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"The voice was passivized by the author"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I just saw the following line in an ad:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>I can\u2019t believe it was made by myself!<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\u2026Certainly passive voice is not the only problem with that sentence. For example, the last word should be <i>me<\/i> rather than <i>myself<\/i>; a lot of English speakers incorrectly use <i>myself<\/i> to sound more formal or official in contexts where <i>me<\/i> is grammatically correct.<\/p>\r\n<p>And certainly passive voice is not always bad. (Passive voice is a big complicated topic, with a lot more nuance than teachers and grammar reference works usually allot to it, and I\u2019m not going to go into it in detail here.)<\/p>\r\n<p>But even so, I was amused.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors","category-grammar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18282,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions\/18282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}