"A campaign is running"

I had to write a letter for my English class and read it. It was a nice letter but according to my teacher, one thing was wrong: "A campaign is running"

My English teacher told me a campaign does not have legs making it impossible for it to run. Ugh. But how about 'it's running it the family' or 'the water is running'?

Which one of us is right?

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Neither of you. Your teacher is incapable of desribing English properly, but the phrase you used is incorrect. It should be “a campaign is being run”. For stylistic reasons, I would prefer “X is/are (depending on whether you're writing British English or American English) running a campaign to....” There's nothing wrong with the passive voice (assuming you even know what that is) in general, but in this instance I think whomever the campaign is being run by is of interest and should come first.

it's running it the family
This is wrong. It should be “it runs in the family”.

At any rate, all three of these are what you might call stock phrases. There's no particular grammatical reason that a campaign is run rather than running on its own. You've just got to memorize what things run and what things are run by another. If you look up “run” in the dictionary, you'll see that it has a ludicrous number of definitions, which is a clue that its usage pattern is going to be complicated and need memorization.

English teachers are faggots who need to get real jobs