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The Domestic Voice In Writing [1]

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Date: 2023-10-10  

Writers meander on a lot about voice. Passive voice, how to recognise it, how to make it active, and so forth.

There is, however, another form of voice, found in any writing when you have a ‘domestic’ situation, EG husband and wife. Which includes a lot of stories. (Dang, I began with a preposition! ARGH!)

Rather than try to define DV, as I’ll shorten Domestic Voice to, I’ll give some examples, in decreasing severity of tone:

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Clean the f-- garage! (IDV, or Imperative Domestic Voice) Please clean the garage. NDV, Normal Domestic Voice. Do you think you could clean the garage? Subordinate DV. We need to clean out the garage. Indirect Request DV. The garage needs cleaning. Passive DV. Do you think the garage could do with a clean? Meek Domestic Voice.

The image was generated using the prompt: An abstract representation of the literary idea of passive voice, cinematic, dramatic, in the style of Dali.

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