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So, Jack, I wanted to talk about something that I've noticed a lot recently because I edit the student newspaper at our university, right.
And I've noticed a lot of the student writers are, are really, they make a lot of mistakes at mixing up active versus passive voice, and active versus passive voice, I think are great.
And both have their own uses, but we need to know when to use them, of course, because that's the thing, is they're both correct.
It's both good grammar, but if you use it the wrong place, it feels different.
Right.
This is the one grammar point where I would say it has a lot to do with style more than it has to do with correct grammar.
So if you don't understand it, I would say don't use it.
Don't use the passive if you don't really understand it and it's not, it's not necessary.
Yeah.
That's safe.
Yeah.
Stick to active and we'll define these in a minute for everybody.
Stick to active until you know when and where to use it.
And this definitely is a bit more of an advanced grammar.
You know, last week we talked about much more beginner grammar.