I love a good info-graphic, and this one is a good follow-up to my last post, in which I lamented the shortcomings of using the passive voice. Sometimes that “be” verb is necessary, but often—usually—it can be replaced with action verbs that draw a reader happily to the conclusion of a book. Hopefully, he’ll have a smile on his face and look slightly disheveled after the thrilling experience… Courtesy of grammar.net The subject is continued if you want to further investigate Filter Words, which “unnecessarily filter the reader’s experience through a character’s point of view.” (Dark Angel, author of the now […]