Give us an example of 'impassioned' being used as a verb. Maybe you should have done that before making the claim. It could move the topic along quicker.
I'm volunteering to help you but if you are going to be contrary then it's going to end.
I really don't get the point of your reproach over what is nothing more than the first draft of a long essay. It's weird to me. I don't know about others, but in my first draft, grammar is not at the forefront of my mind. I merely tap out the ideas and the feel of the thing as fast as they come to me. I edit for grammar later.
As to your question, see link:
This is a reference page for impassion verb forms in present, past and participle tenses. Find conjugation of impassion. Check past tense of impassion here.
pasttenses.com
But as I told you, upon reflection, thanks to you, I've only seen
impassioned used as a verb when it takes an explicit object, and, of course, most of the time it's strictly used as an adjective or in a transitive verb. Examples of it used as a verb, however, only with an explicit object:
it impassioned him,
her words impassioned him,
the song impassioned them.
The paragraph I posted from my essay, which you excoriated, was being editorially scrutinized by me for the first time that morning, and while I had occasionally wondered about the possessive form of the pertinent expression, I wanted to settle the matter in my mind at that moment--as I use the expression in that paragraph, not once, but twice. I couldn't find anything online addressing that specific issue, so I consulted you guys. I know that many of you are keen grammarians. I had yet to examine it for any typos. But I'm glad I posted the raw draft, as you suggested that my attempt at a fresh play on the old idiom
the calm before the storm, which entails a brief description of Paine's style and the term
brewing, is ill-advised. Though another avers that
brewing is okay, I don't want to disturb the reader's attention. As for
impassioned, once again, I've only seen it used when it takes an object. Again, I don't want to disturb the reader's attention.
If you're offering to review my
edited version after I've gone through it per my editorial notes from my first reading, I accept. You've already made two very fine suggestions. But I need to go through my process first. In my first reading, I only correct typos, missing words, missing punctuation and the like, and only those that jump out at me. I go through it again for those later, after I've scrutinized key words, phrases and clauses, after I've scrutinized overall structure. I also make notes about this or that, but don't make any related changes during the first reading.
Society will never be hurt by generational changes in language and how we communicate, unless the objective enhances a lazier society. If a majority believes that itās just too much trouble to write down two syllable words and cancels all words beyond one syllable, something will have gone awry.
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