From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte
"Otters eat clams. The verb is in the active voice: the subject performs the action. Clams are eaten by otters. The verb is in the passive voice: the subject receives the action. Which form you choose depends on whether you have previously been writing about otters or clams."
From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte "The infinitive of purpose often begins simply with to rather than in order to. In many kinds of prose it serves as a forceful introductory device, sometimes as sentence modifier..."
From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte "Gerunds are impressively flexible as to effect and position."
From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte "Most of the time writers don't confine themselves to a single form of the verb or verbal but use several forms in combination."
From Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tufte "These generalizations apply not only to the main predicative verb but to verb phrases of other kinds as well-- participles, gerunds, infinitives-- which are labeled verbals because they remain verb-like even while behaving like other parts of speech."
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