indicate – English Grammar Profiler

belief, C1, GSE, opinion, PASSIVES, PRONOUNS, subject / assist, believed, bound, calculate, cause, considered, consult, consume, CST, determine, enable, expected, generate, identify, indicate, it, PELIC, purchase, reported, thought, to, treat, VB, VVI, VVN, was

Let’s take a look at an IELTS writing task 2 example with this grammar: It is argued that volunteering should be made a part of the school curriculum. In the above example, ‘is argued‘ forms the passive part.  The active form of this is probably: ‘People argue that…” In our example, ‘people’ is not important or maybe we don’t know who …

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