Use of "was" in writing

[Boxlicker101]

To get back to "was" or' presumably, "were," those advisors may have been referring to compound verbs.

"It was a dark and stormy night."

 

[Hypoxia]

"It was a dark and stormy night."

That's so passive. It should be: "The dark and stormy night crashed over us like a smashed piss-pot."

 

[NotWise]

That's so passive. It should be: "The dark and stormy night crashed over us like a smashed piss-pot."

Or "A dark and stormy knight made my night insufferably long."

 

[Boxlicker101]

Originally Posted by Boxlicker101 View Post

"It was a dark and stormy night."

That's so passive. It should be: "The dark and stormy night crashed over us like a smashed piss-pot."

That's a very famous line. It's the first sentence in Snoopy's novel.

 

[SlightlyGone]

To get back to "was" or' presumably, "were," those advisors may have been referring to compound verbs.

"It was a dark and stormy night."

I'm just going to shake my head.

 

[Hypoxia]

"It was a dark and stormy night."

That's a very famous line. It's the first sentence in Snoopy's novel.

My fave Bulwer-Lytton contest entry:

"There's more than one way to skin a cat," she mused,
as she pinned it's little paws to the dissection table.