The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar These students are victims of the mistaken belief that grammar lessons must come before writing, rather than grammar being something that is best learned through writing. I saw the high cost of this phenomenon first-hand at the urban community college where I taught writing for eight years, an institution where more than 90 percent of students failed to complete a two-year degree within three years. (The national average is only marginally better at roughly 80 percent.) A primary culprit: the required developmental writing classes that focused on traditional grammar instruction. Again and again, I witnessed aspiration gave way to discouragement. In this seven-college system, some 80 percent of the students test into such classes where they can spend up to a year before being asked to write more than a paragraph. Happily, there are solutions. There are also less immediately apparent costs to having generations of learners who associate writing only with correctness.
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poets.org (Links to an external site.) Passive Voice and Active Voice Passive Voice (Why It is Evil and How to Recognize It.) Two "voices" occur in English grammar: active voice and passive voice. (A) The boy hit the ball. In sentence A, we might ask ourselves, what does the hitting? In sentence B, we might ask ourselves what is the subject? Note: Sometimes the passive voice sentence is necessary when the speaker wants to hide the agent or obscure what occurs. In most other cases, it is better rhetoric to use active voice. (1) Active voice sentences are often more concise than passive voice. The fighter punched Ali and dodged the uppercut. (2) Passive voice requires more "weak" words. The airplane was flown to Bermuda (by the pilot). To be verbs and the prepositions do not add much to the sentence in terms of color. The pilot flew the airplane to Bermuda. Remember, the heart of your sentence beats in its strong verbs, concrete nouns, and vivid description! My car has been driven to Dallas. (By whom? Sixteen thousand calories were consumed in one sitting.