On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:16:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 29 August 2006 13:52, Jack Gates wrote: > > Yes, I assume you are referring to the 1895 Salenas KS 8th grade > final test thats floating around on the net? I haven't seen that. Uncle Milty and Rose Friedman reprinted a March, 1911 Indiana High School entrance exam on page 149 of their Tyranny of the Status Quo (1983). Imagine the concept of a high school entrance exam, for one thing and consider the implicit social policy thereof. I shan't reprint the whole thing, but it did call on the candidate to write a sentence with its verb in the active voice, and then re-write it with the passive voice. I recently taught a class on technical writing at a local community college. I had to explain to them what passive voice was and why one should avoid it, and some of them never got it. I have not taught there since. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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