Um, it wasn’t a “government statement”.
Junk linguistics at the Beeb—MS Word makes sleuths of us all. Aha! moment: "Government statements very rarely use the passive… However, the author…does use the passive voice, a few times." Ergo: Pence. @bgzimmer @lanegreene @poniewozik @benschmidt @bbcworldhttps://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1037716949260804096 …
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Appropriately enough, the very first sentences of my new book are about a lingusitic stumble in the Beeb's "Sherlock", where they set him up to be a super-pedant and then he makes a mistake in the very next scene.
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I count nine uses of the passive voice here, but whatever. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-meeting-republican-congressional-leadership/ …
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And not all of their "passive" examples even are!
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