Since 2003, the Language Loggers have been looking at what people say about passives: what people identify as “passive” or “passive voice” (or, sometimes, alas, “passive tense”) and what as not; what they advise about the use of this syntax; and so on. From the very first posting on passives, the Loggers have noted the … Continue reading Be-less passives and be-ful non-passives