Monday, April 30, 2007

Week6 / Text skill - News report summary

An accident happened on, the 1st of May in 2007 near Rotorua. It was between two motorcycles and a car. Here is a link to an article about the accident caused by the driver and riders’ carelessness. Most of the content of the report is interviews with their families or friends.

There are lots of verb forms. Most of the verb forms are the past simple form, which explain what happened. There are two examples, one is present perfect and the other is past passive. The first one, “has really gone” is a present perfect form and it is used for an action that happened in the past but it still current in the speaker’s mind. The second one “was killed” is used when someone wants a style that is impersonal and objective.

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