Professional Documents
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Study!
A. Look at the example and try to explain why this passive voice construction is different from the one you
have already learnt.
Indirect Direct
Subject
useful skills
Object
by school
FPO
Subject Agent
B. Now complete the rules with words from the box on the right.
When an active sentence contains a object and an subject
object, we should change the object into the of the direct
passive sentence. indirect (x2)
Practise!
C. Rewrite these sentences into the passive voice. Start with the indirect object!
1. Investors should grant teen entrepreneurs the benefit of the doubt.
7. The bank manager has warned John about the financial risks of his business plan.