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Impersonal Passives

This document discusses impersonal passives and provides examples of how to transform sentences from active to impersonal passive voice. It gives sentences and their impersonal passive rewrites, showing how to change the subject from an agent ("people", "police") to "it" and make the original subject the object of a preposition ("by", "to").

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Impersonal Passives

This document discusses impersonal passives and provides examples of how to transform sentences from active to impersonal passive voice. It gives sentences and their impersonal passive rewrites, showing how to change the subject from an agent ("people", "police") to "it" and make the original subject the object of a preposition ("by", "to").

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IMPERSONAL PASSIVES:

1. People believe that English is the most wideley spoken language


 It is believed that English is the most widely spoken language.
 English is believed to be the most widely spoken language.

2. Police have reported that it was Peter who caused the accident.
 It has been reported that it was Peter who caused the accident.
 Peter has been reported to have caused the accident.

1. A journalist reports that they are leaving Las Vegas tomorrow night.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
They___________________________________________________________________________________
2. Teh lecturer thought that Columbus never realized that he had discovered America.
It _____________________________________________________________________________________
Columbus______________________________________________________________________________
3. Their parents thought that the teenagers were dancing at the disco.
It_____________________________________________________________________________________
The teenagers___________________________________________________________________________
4. Everybody thinks that she sings beautifully.
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5. The children reported that their friends were swimming when they disappeared.
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6. People believed that they had killed the animals during the night.
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7. My friends think that my parents are the best parents in the world.
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8. They believed the horse was a present.
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9. People are thinking that drugs are very dangerous.
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10. They knew that Mr. Brown was stealing iron from the Factory.
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11. Ancient people thought that the stars would fall on them.
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12. People think that the team will be classified for the final.
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13. The reporters believed that the meeting would finish soon.
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