“A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.” MomentsLyingEnergyDifferencesOffersQuietSentencesVerbs Author:Constance Hale
“Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.” WritingImportantReasonUseSufferingVoiceWorstRemainsPassiveArrowsVerbsRhetoricalQuiverPassive Voice Author:Constance Hale
