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Answer — Exercise 7.5 - Passive reporting structures

Grammar Focus·Focus 4 - Student's Book

Question

Rewrite the sentences using impersonal passive structures.

Answer

  1. Bob Dylan is considered to be the most influential musician of the twentieth century.
  2. It was reported (in February) that crime levels were falling faster.
  3. 7,000 languages are expected to disappear by 2050.
  4. Kale is said to be the most nutrient-dense food there is.
  5. There are thought to have been over 500 different species of dinosaur.
  6. Road traffic accidents are believed to have killed 1.24 million people in 2010.
  7. Cats are known to be able to produce about ninety different sounds more than dogs.
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More exercises in Grammar Focus

Ex. 0.1 - Present tenses - review
Ex. 0.2 - Past tenses - review
Ex. 0.3 - Conditionals - wish and if only
Ex. 0.4 - Modal verbs for speculation
Ex. 0.5 - Reported Speech
Ex. 0.6 - Articles
Ex. 0.7 - Comparative structures
Ex. 0.8 - The Passive
Ex. 1.2 - Present and past habits
Ex. 1.5 - Verb patterns
Ex. 2.2 - Past Perfect Simple and Continuous
Ex. 2.5 - Relative clauses
Ex. 3.2 Future forms
Ex. 3.5 - Quantifiers
Ex. 4.2 Question tags and reply questions
Ex. 4.5 - Present and past modal structures
Ex. 5.2 Reported speech
Ex. 5.5 - Reporting verbs
Ex. 6.2 - Conditional clauses - alternatives to if
Ex. 6.5 - Mixed conditionals
Ex. 7.2 - Advanced passive forms
Ex. 8.2 - Unreal past and regrets
Ex. 8.5 - Emphasis - cleft sentences and inversion