Fear and Loathing of the English Passive with Prof Geoffrey K. Pullum (U of Edinburgh)

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source: Linguistics and English Language at the University of Edinburgh 2015年8月1日
Prof Geoffrey K. Pullum provides an hour-long series of videos explaining points in his 2014 article "Fear and Loathing of the English Passive", which appeared in Language and Communication. (video and animation: James Donaldson)
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(1/6): The "receiver" of the "action"? 3:57
(2/6): There's more than one type of passive 16:11
(3/6): The real rules for passives 10:09
(4/6): Strunk and White get it wrong every time 5:47
(5/6): But those aren't passives! 18:16
(6/6): There's nothing wrong with passives 12:14