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> To the NY Times: please don't say they died by suicide. The passive voice

“X died by suicide” is a sentence in the active voice. “Die” is an intransitive verb and cannot be passivized in English.

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Please don't do this kind of tangential grammar nitpicking here. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less.

I’m not nitpicking the poster’s grammar, I’m nitpicking the claim about the grammatical structure of a particular sentence that’s the factual basis of their criticism of the article.

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