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    This document summarizes personal and impersonal passive constructions. Personal passive involves making the direct object of an active sentence the subject of a passive sentence. Impersonal passive uses "it is said" to express information without citing sources, essentially claiming a position without justification. The correct active form would name who is saying or claiming something.

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    This document summarizes personal and impersonal passive constructions. Personal passive involves making the direct object of an active sentence the subject of a passive sentence. Impersonal passive uses "it is said" to express information without citing sources, essentially claiming a position without justification. The correct active form would name who is saying or claiming something.

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    This document summarizes personal and impersonal passive constructions. Personal passive involves making the direct object of an active sentence the subject of a passive sentence. Impersonal passive uses "it is said" to express information without citing sources, essentially claiming a position without justification. The correct active form would name who is saying or claiming something.

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    Personal Passive – Impersonal Passive –


    It is said

    1. Personal Passive
    When we put an object of an active sentence into passive, it becomes subject of the passive sen-
    tence.

    Active sentence → The professor gave the students the books.


    Passive sentence → The students were given the books.

    We sometimes use a pronoun for the students or the books in its subject form (here: they).
    Active sentence → The professor gave them the books.

    Passive sentence → They were given the books.

    We very o�en leave out the by-agent in the passive sentence (here: by the professor).

    2. Impersonal Passive – It is said ...


    The phrase It is said ... is an impersonal passive construction. This construction is used informally.
    It is said ... is used when one doesn't want to, or is unable to, site legitimate sources for what you
    are saying. It is, essentially, a way of claiming any position without justifying it.

    Passive sentence 1 → It is said that children are afraid of ghosts.

    Passive sentence 2 → Children are said to be afraid of ghosts.

    The correct active sentence would be:

    Active sentence → People say that children are afraid of ghosts.

    Thanks to Steven.

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