What is wrong with this? I have quintupple checked it, but grammarly tells me that I have passive voice misuse. Can someone help?     "The Japanese were warned that one of their cities, Hiroshima, which is also where their 2nd army was, would vanish."
Whenever I create a document in Microsoft Word, it complains about a lot of my sentences being in passive voice. But, when I read that sentence aloud, it sounds fine to me. I am not sure if it is just me and will a statement in passive voice sound strange to a native speaker?  So, my question is, is it considered bad form to use passive voice generally? Or in some specific cases like written communications only?  Edit: If it is ok to use passive voice, then why does MS-Word complain?
This is what we are taught: $$5^{-2} = \left({\frac{1}{5}}\right)^{2}$$  but I don't understand why we take the inverse of the base when we have a negative exponent.  Can anyone explain why? My book (Concepts of Physics by H.C. Verma) writes:  It has been reported () that the force between two masses may be better represented by $$F = \frac{G_{\infty} m_{1} m_{2}}{r^2} \left[1 + \left(1 + \frac{r}{\lambda} \right) \alpha e^{-\frac{r}{\lambda}}\right]$$ where $\alpha \approx - 0.007$ and $\lambda \approx 200~\mathrm{m}$.  What is this? Such a horrendous formula! So, what about Newton's? And what's the difference between $G$ &amp; $G_{\infty}$? If I have $10$ apples, but you have $5$ apples, then I have $2$ times more apples than you. But what if I have $10$ apples, but you don't have any apples?   If you look at the graph $f(x)=\frac{10}{x}$, it shows that when $x$ approaches $0$, $f(x)$ approaches infinity. So it means I have infinity times more apples than you? Expected value notation in GAN loss I am reading Goodfellow's original  on GANs.  What I struggle to understand is his notation of the subscript in expected values.  $\mathbb{E}_{\boldsymbol{x} \sim p_{data}(\boldsymbol{x})}$ ....  If I understand it correctly then $\boldsymbol{x}$ is a realization of some random variable $\mathbf{x}$, but how can there be an expectation wrt. $\boldsymbol{x}$?  Or is $\boldsymbol{x}$ a random variable?  Thank you.  Edit: I do not think this is duplicate, as the referenced question does not answer what $\boldsymbol{x}$ means. How can I get crash data (stack traces at least) from my Android application? At least when working on my own device being retrieved by cable, but ideally from any instance of my application running on the wild so that I can improve it and make it more solid. Global setting of spacing between items in itemize environment for beamer Trying to install ubuntu on a laptop. The "bios/uefi" has no uefi boot options &amp; the windows boot manager just kicks in. The only "option" is "boot from hard disk". So we tried to use efibootmgr to put grub to boot first.  When we run an efibootmgr -o xxxx,xxxx,xxxx command it seems like the order gets fixed but on reboot the windows boot manager still has control, then when we re-opened the live usb &amp; checked the boot order it remains unaffected.  What are other ways to change the efi boot order? Maybe by mounting the efi partition (in mnt) and doing what? I was working on a worksheet for class and came across this problem:      Let $\varphi:R\to S$ be an onto ring homomorphism with the property that every ideal of $R$ is principal. Show that the same must be true for $S$.    I honestly do not know how to do this one! Etymology of "history" and why the "hi-" prefix? According to , history comes from the same root as story. If they are from the same word, where does hi- come from? 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Let's say I have an enumeration like this:  public enum ItemTypes {     Movie = 1,     Game = 2,     Book = 3 }   How do I go about creating a dropdown with these values using the Html.DropDownList extension method?  Or is my best bet to simply create a for loop and create the Html elements manually? Right-hand sidebar covers the footer on the "ask question" page and markdown help page I have noticed that while asking questions and scrolling to the bottom of the page, the right sidebar containing recent questions covers the footer partially. Also, a part of it goes beyond the browser's boundary. It may not be a big problem but it still doesn't look good.    This also happens on the  page Factorial Inequality problem $\left(\frac n2\right)^n > n! > \left(\frac n3\right)^n$ I met an inequality, I ask, do not mathematical induction to prove that:     Prove \[ \left(\frac n2\right)^n > n! > \left(\frac n3\right)^n \] without using induction If $p,q,r$ are all primes,and $p|qr-1$,$q|pr-1$ and $r|pq-1$,find all possible values of $pqr$. Zero to the zero power – is $0^0=1$? Prove by induction: $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{n}sin(kx)=\frac{sin(\frac{n+1}{2}x)sin\frac{nx}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$ $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{n}sin(kx)=\frac{sin(\frac{n+1}{2}x)sin\frac{nx}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$  Base case: For $n=1$  $sinx=\frac{sinx\cdot sin\frac{x}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}=sinx$  Induction hypothesis: For $n=m$  $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{m}sin(kx)=\frac{sin(\frac{m+1}{2}x)sin\frac{mx}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$  Induction step: $n=m+1$  $\sum\limits_{k=1}^{m+1}sin(kx)=\frac{sin(\frac{m+2}{2}x)sin\frac{(m+1)x}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$  Prove: $\frac{sin(\frac{m+1}{2}x)sin\frac{mx}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}+sin(m+1)x=\frac{sin(\frac{m+2}{2}x)sin\frac{(m+1)x}{2}}{sin\frac{x}{2}}$  Left side: $\frac{sin(\frac{m+1}{2}x)sin\frac{mx}{2}+sin\frac{x}{2}sin(m+1)x} {sin\frac{x}{2}}$  How to prove this equality? I used $sin(u)sin(v)$ identity but that didn't help. How do I delete a 'locked' file? 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The following doesn't work, but might it help explain where I'm confused...?  interface    TCallbackMethod = procedure of object;    TCallbackObject = class     procedure CallbackMethodImpl;     procedure SetupCallback;   end;  implementation  procedure CallbackTheCallback(const callbackMethod: TCallbackMethod); begin   callbackMethod(); end;  procedure TCallbackObject.CallbackMethodImpl; begin   // Do whatever. end;  procedure TCallbackObject.SetupCallback; begin   // following line doesn't compile - it fails with "E2036 Variable required"   CallbackTheCallback(@self.CallbackMethodImpl); end;   (Once the question is answered I'll remove the above code unless it aids the explanation somehow.)