Re: active vs. passive (was: "via" - why often verboten ?)

[Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>]

Since the subject specifically refers to active vs. passive, I'll
repeat what I said in that long thread, only correctly (it has been a
long and busy day):

A phrase in passive voice has to have a form of the verb "be" and a
past participle. There's more to it, but without those, it's not
passive voice.

Garner's "Modern American Usage" has good explanations for things like that.
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