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The Passives and Other Paraphrases Module consists of 6 lessons plus a placement test and post test.
The lessons cover:
  1. Use of "going to" for future tense ("The girl is going to give the boy a cookie.")
  2. Passive voice ("The boy's arm was bitten by the cat").
  3. Past participle verb forms (eaten, taken, driven, bitten, given, thrown, worn).
  4. Cleft sentences ("It was the bigger ball that the girl threw"; "What the light haired boy is standing on is a table.")
  5. Inversion ("Into the woods went the train.")
  6. Elliptical expressions ("The boy is doing what the girl is doing"; "The girl ate an apple and so did the boy.")
A total of 332 exercises.