Career and Professionalism
Review the grammar and do the writing exercises to help improve writing skills.
Career and Professionalism
Inversion
- Invert the subject and auxiliary verb after the adverb
- If there is no auxiliary verb in original sentence, add ‘do, does, did’
Passive Reporting Verbs
- Used to report beliefs and opinions
- There are 2 main structures
- It + passive verb + that + clause
- Subject + passive verb + to + infinitive
- Common reporting verbs: believe, think, claim, report, consider, say, know, expect
Writing a complaint
- Use a formal greeting
- Express reason for writing and what the complaint is
- Give reasons and/or evidence for the complaint
- Request a solution for the complaint
- Formal ending
Examples
It is believed that the suspect has a solid alibi.
She is said to want to sue the company for 10 million.
Never have I ever been involved in something so dramatic.
