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About This Resource
This C1 resource develops passive reporting structures for presenting propositions while reducing the prominence of the source. It focuses on source distance, stance, relative time, and the grammatical contrast between impersonal reporting frames and subject-to-infinitive patterns.
What You’ll Learn
• Recognize major impersonal and personal passive reporting patterns.
• Use reporting structures to control how prominently the source is presented.
• Express appropriate relative time with simple, perfect, and progressive infinitive forms where required.
• Choose passive reporting frames that match the intended stance and evidence.
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