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Comment by lazyasciiart

8 days ago

You could improve this comment by rewriting it in the active voice, like this: “I am painfully bored by reading passive voice”.

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kragen  8 days ago

"Is painfully boring" is not the passive voice. I suggest reading https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2922.

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