68: Passive Voice Day




Talk the Talk show

Summary: Passive Voice Day was held last week. The linguistic phenomenon known as passive voice is hated by editors, checked by computers, and used by all of us. But it's not well understood, and often misidentified in the press. How can it be spotted, and should it be eliminated entirely? Passive voice will be explained once and for all by UWA linguist Daniel Midgley in this episode of Talk the Talk.