Academic writing style: Complex Grammar in EAP Exercise 2: Passives Passives Rewrite the underlined parts of these sentences. Instead of using 'people', 'somebody', or 'they', write a passive sentence with an appropriate verb form Example: We can solve the problem. The problem can be solved 1. Prices are stable and we maintain them in this way over generations 2. We define tropical forests here as 'evergreen or partly evergreen forests' 3. Scientists distinguish methane because it has a large number of significant sources 4. They reformed the old dilator procedure in 1852 5. In 1916 the government passed the Disease Regulations 6. It was only in the 1930s, in Oxford, that researchers isolated and crystallised lysozyme 7. The recent local crime surveys replicate these findings 8. Everybody eventually generally accepted the date 753 BC 9. We next consider a range of rival theories 10. The rules require the subject to answer if the statement is true or false 11. The examiners should conduct the examination in the greatest possible privacy 12. We will confine the discussion to general principles of treatment 13. The researchers transcribed many genes and synthesise many proteins 14. A further class of solutions in which they separate the main equation in yet another way has been given by Yurtse Press this button to check your answers: http://www.uefap.net/exercises/grammar/pasex2.htm 1/1