Entries Tagged as 'passive voice'
Exhibit a) Spotted at a laundromat in Silver Lake by Jessica in Los Angeles…
Exhibit b) From Ronnie’s Diner, also in LA.., by Valerie:
Exhibit c) From Barnacle Bill’s in Sarasota, Florida:
Exhibit d) From, as Miranda explains, ” the local ‘community thrift store’ in Dahlonega, Georgia, where everything is donated, and all the people who work there…are volunteers. [...]
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Tags: "customer service" · CAPS LOCK · highlighter · passive voice
Amber received this amazing note in an envelope on her doorstep in Sacramento. “I have no idea which neighbor sent this to me, but I can only assume it was the paranoid-looking woman who lives above me,” she says. “But I don’t do drugs. I don’t even smoke cigarettes!”
related: don’t hate the playa
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Tags: a little uptight · drugs · holiday spirit · neighbors · not-so-veiled threats · odor · passive voice · sacramento
reading in the bathroom is one thing…but kicking back with a purloined snapple? that’s one step too far for this food service establishment, as spotted by jenny in washington, d.c.
you gotta love that passive voice! any kindly guesses re: the crossed-out word?
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Tags: bathroom · highlighter · not-so-veiled threats · passive voice · restaurant · stealing
no lols from this feline — just some lovely passive voice!
(thanks to megan in michigan.)
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Tags: cats · cleaning · michigan · passive voice · roommates · signed with love · whiteboard