Timeline for why do we see far more questions about rewriting active as passive than the other way around?
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| Dec 12, 2015 at 20:28 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 12, 2015 at 20:10 | comment | added | user20792 | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because the asker is requesting information that we couldn't possibly know within reasonable limits. Someone would need to survey a great deal of ESL texts to answer this question. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 13:40 | comment | added | TimR | @ColleenV: Thanks for quoting that relevant snippet from the site's mission statement. A question about the textbooks used when teaching English as a foreign language is germane, IMO. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 13:30 | comment | added | ColleenV |
I may be reading more into the question than is intended, but I voted to leave it open because I see it as a question related to teaching English. It may be a bit of a stretch but the help does say ELL is for people who are learning or teaching English as a foreign language.
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| Dec 16, 2014 at 13:26 | answer | added | ColleenV | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 13:18 | comment | added | TimR | @bruised reed: Have I even ventured to say what should be done about those books, if indeed they are favoring the passive? No, I have not. Have I questioned the motives of their authors? No, I have not. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 13:17 | review | Close votes | |||
| Dec 16, 2014 at 15:48 | |||||
| Dec 16, 2014 at 13:15 | comment | added | TimR | @bruised reed: No, it is not subjective. Whether there is a preponderance of active-into-passive exercises is demonstrable, one way or the other. It's not asking for an opinion. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 13:10 | comment | added | TimR | @bruised reed: I thought the "meta" site was for questions about the site per se, i.e. how the site operated, rules, terms of service, etc. | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 13:08 | comment | added | J.R.♦ | I think it's borderline. It's partly about the site (which would mean it belongs on meta), but it's also about English and learning English (which would mean it belongs here, not on meta). | |
| Dec 16, 2014 at 12:46 | history | asked | TimR | CC BY-SA 3.0 |