On Tuesday 29 August 2006 17:22, Charles Curley wrote: >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. Thats not your fault Charles. That should have been part of the language they got in the 5th grade IIRC. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
