Thread:RaijinRising/@comment-27121579-20160127212825/@comment-33293221-20160128043450

My high school was the same way with contractions, active voice, and even common verbs. We could only use a total of three of any form of "to be, to have, to do, to get". Like, not three each, three total. But tthat went away. That was a public school too. Now I don't think my college cares too much.

And active voice is generally just better. Passive voice exists in Spanish too, but they almost never really use it. Mostly, active voice is just more concise. There's no confusion about what the object-of-the-sentence is.... if we're getting technical. And we also don't use a comma before "and" for the last item in a series here either. Minomelo explained that well.