Plz help Question 1
You are the leader of a local 'street style' dance company called Tempo and would like to
enter a competition in France. You need to raise funds for transport and
accommodation.

Your task: is to write a letter to a local business asking them to sponsor you.

The address to write to is Heather Reed, Stayley's Printing, Devon House, Grant Road,
Hensham, HR5 7U).

Expand upon the following points:

1, why you are writing
2, details about the competition in France
3, why the dance company is important to you
4, what you would like from the business
5, what they would get in exchange.

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i'm unsure whether this sentence is active or passive voice.

    i want to be there when the final match is played at wimbledon.

when we marked it, the teacher said that it was passive voice, but isn't the subject ("i") doing the action, which makes it active? can someone explain?

passive-voice

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    it's not the matrix clause that is passive, but just the subordinate clause functioning as complement of "when", i.e. the final match is played at wimbledon. it's a 'short passive' in that there is no internalised complement (by phrase). the subject of the subordinate passive clause is "the final match". "i" is subject of the matrix clause. – billj jun 13 '17 at 15: 29

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