Mastery of Personal and Impersonal Passive constructions is essential for high-level proficiency in English, particularly in academic and professional contexts. The Impersonal Passive allows writers to cite sources or express general consensus without resorting to informal or vague agents. The exercises provided in this paper offer a scaffolded approach to acquiring these structures, moving from basic transformation to complex infinitival manipulation.
Instructions: Rewrite the sentences using the Impersonal Passive construction (It + passive verb + that-clause). personal impersonal passive exercises pdf
Subject (from the that-clause) + passive reporting verb + infinitive (to be / to have been / to do) Mastery of Personal and Impersonal Passive constructions is
Before you download the exercises, check for these three classic errors: They believe that the treasure is buried on this island
Using the wrong tense in the infinitive:
Adding an unnecessary 'to be' with adjectives: