REPAIRING PROBLEMS STRATEGY 6: The Animate-Inanimate Shift First-aid for: organising flow and 'light-heavy' Here, a passive construction is made active, with a non-human subject taking a verb often associated with human activity. This strategy can also be used to move a familiar idea into topic position at the start of a sentence.   Other subject-verb combinations of this type include: This paper presents… Figure 2 illustrates… These graphs show… This section addresses… The latest studies focus on...

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