AFTER READING (p.61)
1- a- Timber companies
b-The Brazilian government
These sentences are in the passive voice because the subjects of the verbs
are not really the doers/agents of the actions i.e.,the focus is on the actions
rather than on the performers/ doers (of the actions).
2-a- Timber companies fell 18.000km2 of forest trees
b-The Brazilian government built new roads throughout the 1960’s
and 1970s.
3- The sentences that give attention to the action itself are the sentences from the reading text; The students’ sentences are in the active. They put emphasis on the doers/performers of the actions.
4- The writer has inverted the structure by foregrounding the action (putting it first in the sentence structure) and putting the real performers/doers of the action at the end of the sentence.