Proper noun
E-Prime
A modified form of English that eliminates the verb be and thus avoids the passive voice, intended to reduce the dogmatism of language and the likelihood of misunderstanding and conflict.
Albert Ellis advocated the use of E-Prime, especially in writing, as a way to avoid muddled and blame-based thinking that distresses psychotherapy patients. Source: Internet
E-Prime tends to make the expression of higher orders of abstraction more difficult, e.g. a student is more likely to be described in E-Prime as "She attends classes at the university". Source: Internet
E-Prime and Charles Kay Ogden 's Basic English may lack compatibility because Basic English has a closed set of verbs, excluding verbs such as "become", "remain", and "equal" that E-Prime often uses to describe precise actions or states. Source: Internet
General semantics cuts the link between the two through the practice of silence on the objective levels, adopting a self-reflexive attitude, e.g., "as I see it" "it seems to me" etc., and by the use of quotation marks — without using E-Prime. Source: Internet
Korzybski observed improvement "of one full letter grade" by "students who did not generalize by using that infinitive". citation Although this took place before the invention of E-Prime, it does show the application of general semantics to psychotherapy. Source: Internet
Bourland and Johnston then edited a third book, E-Prime III: a third anthology, published in 1997. Source: Internet