As corrupt as the universe is wide…
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/508050-whistleblower-alleges-repeated-attempts-were-made-to-report-pompeos
There’s that vague, useless PASSIVE VOICE. Sentences like these are impotent without a subject! 
Midway through life’s journey I found myself in a deep wood, where the right way was lost.
That’s not the passive voice, just the past perfect tense. The subject is “right way.”
BTW, I know how Dante felt.
The sad thing here is not that he doesn’t want constant reminders of recent presidents more competent than him looking down from the wall (that’s to be expected), it’s that everyone knows W is on that list.
How did Bush the Elder escape the purge?
No, it’s the passive voice, with the actor omitted. “The right way was lost by me” would also be the passive voice, but with the actor included. The equivalent in the active voice would be, “I lost the right way.”
The passive voice usually uses a past participle (e.g. “It was forgotten”). That doesn’t mean it’s in a perfect tense.
Uh oh, The grammarians are going at it. Hit 'em with your Chicago Rules of Style!
You are absolutely right, and I stand corrected. My gripe with the passive voice is exactly what you said: the actor omitted. As in the quotation in a previous post (my bold):
I want to know who did a thing, i.e., who is responsible, who is the offender. I want to know who blocked and who prevented. The actor should not be omitted in stories like this, but often is, which amounts to leaving out an important fact from the story.
Reminds me of this book:
https://smile.amazon.com/Mistakes-Were-Made-But-Not-ebook/dp/B003K15IOE/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Mistakes+were+made&qid=1595246751&sr=8-2
Yeah, the “gotcha” of having to recall those 5 words a couple minutes later when you thought you were done with that part is the trickiest part of the test. But otherwise it’s ridiculous that trump would brag about “acing” it. I stomached the first 40 minutes or so of the Chris Wallace interview, and I liked how Wallace said, “sir, I took that test, and it wasn’t that hard.” Then trump pipes up with “the last 5 questions were VERY hard! I bet you couldn’t have answered those questions!” Uh, one, Wallace just said he DID take the whole test and it wasn’t hard. Two, no the last 5 questions were NOT difficult. AT ALL.
I took the test over zoom with my doctor’s office. When she got to the five words, hell, I was sitting at home, and I wrote them down!
I told this to a friend who works with the elderly and often administers this test. She said writing the words down is fine. She said if she were giving the test in person and the client asked for a pencil and paper to write the words down, she’d give them extra points for knowing the best way to get the words right.
It’s NOT a memory test. It’s a test of executive function.
Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully.
You do have to account for Trump’s attention span. I’m actually surprised he got to the end without flinging poo.
(Stretches galluses) Well… as for me, I am and always be an AP man.
By being dead. The other three are still alive, so Trump knows there are three guys out there who can call bullshit on him from experience.
(I know Carter is still alive, too, but Trump probably can’t remember that far back.)
Let’s not jump to conclusions.
Yeah, it was not a live interview-- the poo-flinging may have been edited out!
Well, one of the executive functions that it tests is the ability to multi-task, and we know he can tweet and poop at the same time, so there’s that.
Tweeting takes both hands. Maybe he’s the second human known to have a prehensile rectum.
…simultaneously producing two different kinds of shit-- quite a talent, actually.
And both of which, in his case, are produced by the same bodily system.
They’re coming for us.
The Trump administration is preparing to roll out a plan this week to send military-style federal assault squads already in Portland, Oregon, into other cities, warned White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, who only named locations with Democratic mayors.
Attorney General William Barr is “weighing in on that” with acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf, Meadows said Sunday on Fox News.
“You’ll see something rolled out this week, as we start to go in and make sure that the communities — whether it’s Chicago or Portland or Milwaukee or someplace across the heartland — we need to make sure their communities are safe,” he added.
All three cities named are run by Democrats.
President Donald Trump also indicated that federal squads would likely target cities run by the party that opposes him. He said on “Fox News Sunday” that “violence” was on the increase in “Democrat-run cities.”
“They are liberally run, they are stupidly run,” the president added.
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