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Correct sentence:
Nurses must be
trust and accept patients' reports of pain.
Redundant auxiliary with active voice. The
Present Simple does not use an auxiliary ('be' or 'have'). |
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Correct sentence:
The company should consider how much profit can gain
be gained by introducing this new product
Incorrect form of the main verb. 'Profit'
is rarely the subject of an active verb.
Profit cannot 'gain' something. |
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Correct sentence:
Only 24% of respondents were
correctly answered this question
Redundant auxiliary with active voice. The
Present Simple does not use an auxiliary ('be' or 'have').
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Correct sentence:
As the policy comes from rational analysis and
base
is based on experience, it is grounded
in fact.
Incorrect form of the main verb. This verb
is usually used in the passive. |
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Correct sentence:
Nurses' experience in caring for cancer patients in pain may be influenced
influence their attitudes toward pain management.
OR
Nurses' experience in caring for cancer patients in pain may be influenced
be influenced by their attitudes
toward pain management .
These two 'corrections' have quite different
meanings. Can you recognise in which one the attitude is the cause,
and in which the effect?
NOTE: In the first 'correction' the experience the nurses
have may cause a change in their attitudes ¡V the attitudes will
be an 'effect' resulting from their experience ¡V while in the
second 'correction' the way the nurses experience their caring
duties may be changed by the attitudes they began with ¡V the attitudes
will be a 'cause' of the type of experience they have. |
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Correct sentence:
This breaks the cell wall, so the proteins
release
are released to the lysis buffer.
Incorrect form of the main verb. The action
releases the proteins; the proteins are (passively) released.
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Correct sentence:
The amplified light wave divide
is divided into two parts by the coupler
Incorrect form of the main verb. Like the
proteins in the sentence above, the light is not active in this
situation ¡V it is the coupler which actively divides.) |
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Correct sentence:
Surprisingly, only 12.4% of the nurses had
been attended
a course in pain management.
Incorrect use of the passive with intransitive
verbs. It is not possible to use the passive with intransitive verbs
(i.e those with a direct object). |
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Correct sentence:
The collected data have
was coded and checked by comparison
with the results of other researchers
Incorrect form of the main verb. The passive
is required here, not the Present Perfect, so the 'be' auxiliary
is used, not 'have'. |
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Correct
sentence:
This digital system
is used
uses electronic methods to identify
customers
Incorrect form of the main verb. The active voice is used here,
with a direct object.
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