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“Some esoterica over which to bicker,” says the traditionalist who rejects utterly the suggestion that ending a sentence with a preposition is ever acceptable. As Churchill (may have) said, “That is the sort of error, up with which I shall not put.”
#5 isn’t entirely true. It is true that passive voice isn’t entirely wrong, although the likes of E. B. White would like you to believe that it is. It is NOT true that “[p]assive voice is when you don’t name the person who’s responsible for the action”. “The lobby of the Rookery building in Chicago was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright” is in the passive voice, even though it names the man who was responsible for designing the lobby of the Rookery building.