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REPAIRING PROBLEMS
STRATEGY 8: Introductory 'It' (Dummy subject)
Reporting verbs
The Dummy 'it' structure is a very important for balancing sentences that use Reporting verbs to report other researchers work.
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The types of climate changes induced by the enhanced greenhouse effect are known to produce a pattern of change.
-- a greenhouse "fingerprint" in the climate system that can only be adequately explained by the enhanced greenhous effect .
It is known that the types of climate changes induced by the enhanced greenhouse effect may produce a pattern of change
-- a greenhouse "fingerprint" in the climate system that can only be adequately explained by the enhanced greenhouse effect .
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Typical Reporting verbs include:
| show |
indicate |
report |
speculate |
| demonstrate | reveal | document | believe |
| observe | find | assume | consider |
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In addition to reporting verbs, the "dummy" it is also used with two other structures:
- those with a special adjective as the object of the sentence
- those with a special noun as the object of the sentence
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