SPOT THE ERROR

• A world with technologies it’s a better place.

• Is a book printed on paper. Because is not a virtual book

• The inspector is like a technician, or a robot engineer, which fixed the malfunctioning teacher and who was very nice to student’s like Margie. He should be a nice man.

SPOT THE ERROR

• A world with technologies is a better place.

• It Is a book printed on paper. Because it is not a virtual book

• The inspector is like a technician, or a robot engineer, who fixed the malfunctioning teacher and who was very nice to students like Margie. He must be a nice man.

• (I’m quite sure he is a nice man)

Passives• we are thinking about

what is done to the person or thing that we are interested in, not about what he/she/it does.

• to go on talking about the same thing, in cases where an active verb would need an unwanted new subject.

…. the teacher showed the lessons and asked the questions on screen

…. all the lessons were shown and the questions were asked.

A big ugly screen on which…

When I was a child…

• I used to …. • I would…