The teacher wanted passive voice? I thought that was generally discouraged in writing? Educate me.
From my google search:
Amazingly, the teacher asked the children about fronted adverbials.
“Amazingly” is the fronted adverbial.
From: Rob Eastaway
I have opinions about making things harder than they need to be without adding value, but I’ll keep them to myself.
ETA: and now that I read the rest of the blog, I see that I am on the same page.
Go study with #what’s-his-name. 
It’s raining ==> I have a headache 
I’m studying ==> I have a headache 
my keyboard just started going crazy on me typing one character repeatedly. tried cleaning it out. still broken. so i switched to this other keyboard i conveniently bought when i thought the first one was broken but just needed batteries.
anyway, the new keyboard, same brand, different color (this one is green, the other one black), has keys that are louder, and the sound of my own typing is annoying me right now.
this would be a far more annoyed thought if i hadn’t stocked up on keyboards. i think i’ll order another one for when this one inevitably breaks.
On the one hand, the gate agents are being a complete bitches…otoh, the passengers are being complete idiots, so I don’t even know who I’m rooting for anymore
Always root for the giant meteor.
Sure…but my proximity to it all makes that dangerous for me as well
Just because someone majors in literature, doesn’t mean they are grammar specialist, or even grammar connoisseurs. Just like art historians don’t need to know about the chemistry of paint. Some do, some don’t.
You must type a lot.
Heh, reminds me of college where one of my BFFs had her own computer (rare back then… maybe 1 in 20 college kids had their own computers) which was super convenient in that you could write a paper in her room rather than trekking across campus to the computer lab. You still had to go to the lab to print the paper, but you could do that between classes when you were on academic quad anyway.
Anyway, the keyboard on this computer had a malfunctioning “z” key. All of the other keys worked just fine. Just not the “z”. So if you needed a “z” you had to type out a word that contained a “z” but misspell it. Such as “quis”. Then run a spellcheck and spellcheck would say “do you mean ‘quiz’” and you’d say “yes” and then you could copy and paste the “z” from “quiz” into whatever word you needed.
On the one hand… not that many words have “z” in them so it wasn’t that awful. On the other hand… typing papers on her computer made you acutely aware of just how many words do contain the letter “z”!!!
And in those days the cost of a replacement keyboard was way out of reach for most college kids. Nowadays you’d never put up with that, even for a lowly “z” key.
Why not just misspell the word you actually wanted to spell and accept the correction?
I had a keyboard growing up where the c didn’t work. Had to have it perpetually copied to paste it in as needed. Got pretty efficient at that.
Depending on the word it might not be in spellcheck or spellcheck might not recognize it.
Like it definitely did not recognize that “soology” should be “zoology”.
And if you were typing some author’s name in a bibliography or you were typing out your German homework… forget it.
Spellcheck wasn’t as good back then even for English language papers. I’m old. :heynow:
Yeah, same, but with “z”. It quickly became standard practice to just start a paper by writing “quis” at the top and then spellchecking it, delete the “qui” to facilitate future copying & pasting and then copying it and pasting as needed.
I think that more than one college paper was turned in with a stray “z” in the top row which confused professors but didn’t usually affect the grading AFAICT.
I’m older than you. We all had our own typewriters. First draft hand written, second draft typed. Math papers (like senior theses) were allowed to be hand-written because it’s too hard to do formulas on a typewriter.
I had one friend who was extremely wealthy who owned his own portable computer with word star. The portable computer looked like a large suitcase, and the keyboard was basically the top of the suitcase, and hinged open. I used it once. I have no idea how i printed that paper. Probably he owned a printer, too.
I had one friend who had a word processor.
You’d type a full row and check for dumb errors and then when you were satisfied you hit a button and it typed the whole row out all at once. Then you’d type the next row.
No good for composition, but if you had a hand-written draft and didn’t feel like trekking to the computer lab it got the job done. I only ever used it when the weather was bad though, and my other friend’s computer wasn’t available. It was considerably more obnoxious than a malfunctioning “z” key.
And then you realise that maybe the Brits have the right idea.
How did you efficiently copy without a working ‘c’ key?
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