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Old 01-06-2008, 02:12 AM   #52 (permalink)
Marcio_Osorio
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[...] would you like to move into writing work related memos in e-prime? I have many clients who have standardized their office memos with e-prime. I will give you a formula for memo writing if you express an interest to further your learnings in e-prime.
Karen, yes, I'd very much like to have that formula. As a civil servant, rather an ofício- or "officialese"-writing bureaucrat working for a government-owned public hospital, I have had to type "ofícios" (official letters and memos) riddled with passive voice constructions indiscriminately using many forms of the verb to be for nearly 13 years in a row. My boss will not let me rewrite the officialese using the active voice.

BTW I do not use English in ofícios.
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