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Passive Report Structures - p.80
Passive Report Structures - p.80
Lesson 7 – Attraction
Grammar : Passive report structures.
PASSIVE REPORT STRUCTURES
Formal
It was thought that the world was flat./ Pensou-se que o mundo era plano.
Bananas are said to give you energy./ Dizem que as bananas lhe dão energia.
Informal
People thought that the world was flat./ As pessoas achavam que o mundo era plano.
They say that bananas give you energy./Dizem que as bananas te dão energia.
Look at an active and passive version of the same sentence. Answer the questions.
Veja uma versão ativa e passiva da mesma frase. Responda às perguntas.
1 - For more than a century people thought that a beautiful face was appealing because .
1 - Por mais de um século as pessoas pensaram que um belo rosto era atraente porque.
For more than a century it was thought that a beautiful face was appealing because .
Por mais de um século, pensava-se que um belo rosto era atraente porque.
2 - Do people all over the world consider the same features to be attractive?
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2 - Put the missing word in brackets in the correct position in the sentence.
2 - Coloque a palavra que falta entre colchetes na posição correta da sentença.
a) Chocolate thought to be bad for your skin. (is)
a) Chocolate pensado para ser ruim para sua pele. (é)
b) It has suggested that you should drink at least two litres of water a day. (been)
b) Sugeriu que você deve beber pelo menos dois litros de água por dia. (fui)
c) It used to assumed that carrots were good for your eyesight. (be)
c) Costumava supor que as cenouras eram boas para a sua visão. (estar)
d) It said that reading in a dim light can damage your eyes. (is)
d) Dizia que a leitura em uma luz fraca pode danificar seus olhos. (é)
e) Shaving body hair widely believed to make it grow back thicker and faster. (is)
e) babear os pêlos do corpo amplamente acredita-se para fazê-lo crescer de volta mais grosso e
mais rápido. (é)
f) It often said that we only use 10%of our brains. (is)
f) Costumamos dizer que usamos apenas 10% dos nossos cérebros. (é)
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