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Category: Stage 3 posts

In this final (of three) stage of the the Zizzi Method of Activated Writing, you will learn how to write in an “activated” style — which markedly *upgrades* the grammatical concept known as “active voice.”

That is, you will learn the crucial difference between predicates that actually “do” something (as opposed to the other two “legal” predicate options named many times on this site, “being something” and “having something”).

In other words, you will learn the theory and practice of the “heart” of my “activated” system — which you might think of as “active voice on steroids.”

Stage 3-a: Requirements for proclaiming . . . the “meaning” of *is*

Hi again, Reader-student. Nice to see you back here. Are you ready to rumble?  (And I don’t mean tumble, nor fumble, nor bumble, nor humbly crumble – hopefully neither to grumble, and certainly never to mumble!)? Well, I am. So put on your reading glasses. Here goes. Now, I hope you haven’t “skipped ahead” to…

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