The phrase "take this passage" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It is typically used when asking someone to read or pay attention to a specific written text. Example: "Please take this passage from the book and summarize it for the class."
Take this passage about Schumann: "He's got his antidepressants in one hand and a sack lunch with a Walmart enchilada and a Mountain Dew in the other.
Take this passage, which comes at the very end of the oneiric history of sadness and futility that he presents in "The Rings of Saturn".
Take this passage, from the prologue: "Tip your chair back, stare into the eyes of someone hateful that you'll take home anyway.
Take this passage from Michael Kinsley's 2008 essay on aging: On an airplane seven or eight years ago, I turned and discovered Robert McNamara in the next seat.
Take this passage from "Fade to Blonde": "He wore a snowy white shirt, a dark red tie figured in dull silver, and a quiet charcoal suit that must have cost more than any car I've ever owned.
Take this passage:What we lack is a liberal Utopia, a program which seems neither a mere defense of things as they are nor a diluted kind of socialism We need intellectual leaders who are willing to fight for an ideal, however small may be the prospects of its early realisation.
But naively taking this passage as commending the death penalty in cases of apostasy would contradict the Quran's claim that there is no compulsion in religion (2 256).
Take this brief passage, following Charlie's explanation to his friend Linc that he is in love.
Take this resounding passage: "I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas.
Take this key passage:I understand we will not suddenly agree on everything now that the cloud of crisis has passed.
Take this random passage from a 1985 HP Lovecraft omnibus: "But oddly enough, the worthy gentleman owned himself most impalpably disquieted by a mere minor detail.
