NetSearch unit 6
Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2010 7:28 amthe present perfect :
- Professor Joan Taylor of De Montfort University "has developed" a device that could end the need for daily injections (The Times)
- The group took up arms against Turkey in 1984. More than 40,000 people, mostly Kurds, "have died" in the fighting.(The Guardian)
the present perfect passive:
- The telecoms regulator "has been frustrated" in its attempts to punish companies with its fines limited to only £50,000(The Times)
- The centuries-old practice "has been condemned" by gender rights groups but defended by Zulus as means of combating teenage pregnancy and HIV.(The Guardian)
the past simple passive:
- It was just another massacre. But this time it "was carried out" by prison inmates. (The Guardian)
- At least eight people "were killed" and three wounded today when an explosion ripped apart the minibus they were travelling in in south-east Turkey, local officials said.(The Guardian)
- Professor Joan Taylor of De Montfort University "has developed" a device that could end the need for daily injections (The Times)
- The group took up arms against Turkey in 1984. More than 40,000 people, mostly Kurds, "have died" in the fighting.(The Guardian)
the present perfect passive:
- The telecoms regulator "has been frustrated" in its attempts to punish companies with its fines limited to only £50,000(The Times)
- The centuries-old practice "has been condemned" by gender rights groups but defended by Zulus as means of combating teenage pregnancy and HIV.(The Guardian)
the past simple passive:
- It was just another massacre. But this time it "was carried out" by prison inmates. (The Guardian)
- At least eight people "were killed" and three wounded today when an explosion ripped apart the minibus they were travelling in in south-east Turkey, local officials said.(The Guardian)