I enjoyed Pullman's article very much and thought it was on the  
money.  White himself admitted that he did not  know much about his  
subject matter.  In 1957, he wrote, "I felt uneasy at posing as an  
expert on rhetoric, when the truth is I write by ear, always with  
difficulty and seldom with any exact notion of what is taking place  
under the hood."
On another matter, would readers please tell me whether they would  
consider the following sentence passive:

	The information gathered from a book was unquestioned.

The sentence comes from Richard Rodriguez.  He is talking about his  
early reading experiences in elementary school.
Thanks,

Ed S

On May 6, 2010, at 9:15 PM, STAHLKE, HERBERT F wrote:

> About a year ago Geoffrey Pullum, one of the authors and editors of  
> the Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, published a trenchant  
> critique of Strunk and White’s Elements of Style.  I believe there  
> was brief discussion of the critique at the time, and the topic  
> continues to come up on Language Log and other linguistic blog  
> sites.  Pullum’s critique is available at http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar-/25497/ 
>  and is worth a read—or a reread—as a critique of popular knowledge  
> of grammar and even of grammatical knowledge among those of us  
> apparently specialized in the area.  I’d be interested in what ATEG  
> readers think of what Pullum has to say.
>
> Herb
> To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web  
> interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and  
> select "Join or leave the list"
> Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/
>


To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at:
     http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html
and select "Join or leave the list"

Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/