PART 2 CULTURAL ISSUES

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 443.

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Roger was fired by his boss Dell Brandon (true).

Passive Verb form: to be + V3.

Thousands of people are killed in car accidents every year (it isn't clear from the sentence who performs the action as the doer is not named, thus it is not important).

1) Many multi-storey apartments were built in the 1960s.

2) The American President is elected every four year.

3) A lot of money has been spent by the company on innovations.

4) Headaches, depression, tiredness, high blood pressure may be caused by allergy.

5) Over 1.5 million cars were produced last year.

6) When wasfamous novel “The catcher in the rye” written by J. Salinger?

7) A new position was offered to Tessa a week ago.

8) Where was this book published?

1) The decision was taken to sell BP's three corporate jets.

2) 33 per cent of new businesses are started now by women.

3) Mr.Huet hasrecentlybeen transferred to New York as head of Societe General in America.

4) Many jobs are being taken in the rapidly growing service sector – banking, computer programming, financial services.

5) To date, 22 government-owned concerns have been privatized, including the national airline and shipping companies, regional water utilities and a commercial TV station.

6) The fate of the sportswear company Adidas was decided yesterday.

7) Tokay, the world's oldest wine brand is being acquired by a Japanese distiller.

8) Turnover fell by 9 per cent to $1.5 billion mainly because of divestments. The group said a further 17 non-core businesses had been sold during the year.

9) Where portable computers may previously have been regarded as a status symbol or even as an executive toy, they are viewed now more objectively by the companies them buy them in quantity.

Unit7 Corporate cultures