The Active Voice: Samantha Irby will make you rethink your toilet

Few people seem to use the word for their whole physical organism. “I have a body” is more common than “I am a body.” We speak of “my” legs as we speak of “my” clothes, and “I” seems to remain intact even if the legs are amputated. We say, “I speak, I walk, I think, and (even) I breathe.” But we do not say, “I shape my bones, I grow my nails, and I

I was not a girl. I was his caretaker.

An active verb brings action to your writing—it’s someone doing something: Roy races Miatas.