Passive Voice Zombies

Because I’m a grammar nerd (among other nerd categories) I totally love this trick I just heard for identifying passive voice.  If you can add “by zombies” after the verb in a sentence, that sentence is in passive voice.

I was told (by zombies) to write a post in my blog.

My car was buried (by zombies) during the blizzard.

Isn’t that the greatest??  I love it!

I may be avoiding writing serious posts right now…  or is that…  Writing serious posts is being avoided (by zombies) on this blog right now…

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