Impersonal passive
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11th - 12th Grade
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José Lozada
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Active voice: we focus on the subject of the action.
Passive voice: the focus is on what/who receives the action.
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Answer in your phone
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Multiple Choice
Select active or passive:
The grapes are grown in California.
Active
Passive
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Multiple Choice
Select active or passive:
The ship has left early. There's one tomorrow evening.
Active
Passive
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It's a common way of reporting what is said by the general people or by an unspecified group of people
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*The passive structure should be as follows:
be (conjugated: present, past, future... it depends)
verb in past participle
It is said that green tea helps you lose weight
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People has believed that --> It has been* believed that+
The economists calculated that --> It was* calculated that
It is estimated that tourism will go back to normality until 2022.
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agree / allege / announce / assume / believe
calculate / claim / consider / declare / discover
estimate / expect / find / known / mention / propose
recommend / rumour / show / suppose / suggest / understand
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DO NOT use capital letters
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Fill in the Blanks
Transform the following sentence into an impersonal form:
People believe the company stole over a million pounds.
It
Type answer...
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Fill in the Blanks
The workers expected the train strike to begin last week.
It
Type answer...
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Be careful in your answers!
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Multiple Choice
Select the option that makes this sentence impersonal:
They discovered the student plagiarised the essay.
_________ the student plagiarised the text.
They are discovered
It was discovered that
It is discover that
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Multiple Choice
People say hot lemon is one of the best remedies for sore throats
________ hot lemon is one of the best remedies for sore throats.
They suggest
It is suggested that
It was suggest
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Multiple Choice
Everybody thought he did not take the prize for political reasons.
________ he didn't take the prize for political reasons.
It was assumed that
People assume
They assume that
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Multiple Choice
All the experts in the congress thought that our wine was the best!
________ our wine was the best in the congress!
It was claimed that
They claim
The experts claimed
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Homework: Akdmic
-Module 9
-Lesson 1 (ONLY)
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