REPAIRING PROBLEMS STRATEGY 4: The Active-Passive Shift First-aid for: 'given-new', organising flow, 'light-heavy' Here, an active verb becomes passive (or vice versa) and the rest of the sentence modified accordingly. In this way, an idea under discussion can sometimes be moved to topic position and stronger links created with previous sentences. Click here to revise the rules for forming the passive.

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