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Re:Changing emotions with a word: The subtleties of semiotics by conistonwater on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @09:10AM (#17073630)
That is definitely not what active voice and passive voice mean, they are relatively precise terms in linguistics, see for example Fear and Loathing of the English Passive by Geoffrey Pullum (http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.pdf). Both I support the division... and I support dividing... are in active voice.
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Re:Changing emotions with a word: The subtleties of semiotics by brain5ide on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:22AM (#17080182)
"The division is supported by me" would be an actual passive.
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Re:Changing emotions with a word: The subtleties of semiotics by conistonwater on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @02:21PM (#17085005)
That doesn't sound grammatical to me, it doesn't sound like the sort of thing anybody would even try to say. I think it violates the rule that Pullum discusses in 2.4.2 p.8 (new-information condition) in that link.
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