At 01:59 PM 3/18/2008, Spruiell, William C wrote: 
. . . one of the texts admonished students never 
to mix active and passive in the same sentence – 
apparently, sentences like “Sven applied to 
college and was accepted” are verboten, . . . Has 
anyone run into this one before?

DD: No. I was an editor of a poetry and literary 
magazine. (Short lived.) Later, I was an editor 
of a trade association news letter. (Founded 
about a century before I had the job and still 
running.) I took the courses in the military 
anent writing. I never heard of this "rule."

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