8.3.1 Sentences Structure

• Sentence functions: declarative, interrogative, imperative, exclamatory
• Matching sentence function to purpose
• Active and passive voice
• Choosing between active and passive

• identify the four sentence functions
• select a sentence function appropriate to purpose
• convert between active and passive voice
• choose voice appropriately for the context

“Why are safety instructions written as commands rather than statements?”

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1. Sentence functions
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Four kinds of sentence, and choosing the one that does the job.
2. Active and passive voice
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Who does what to whom, and what happens when you leave the doer out.
3. Choosing the function on purpose
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Matching statement, question, command and exclamation to a health or safety job, especially why commands belong on notices.
4. Active and passive on a safety page
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Keeping instructions active, and using the passive only when the actor is unknown, obvious, or better unnamed.