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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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A long passive sentence

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However, the first year of the course was not successfully completed by me as a result of my disabilities, namely my having a stammer, anxiety and depression, being made significantly worse by the death of my father in January 2015.
  

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Anonymous A long passive sentence No! Especially not with a personal pronoun as agent. However, I did not complete the first year of the course as a result of my disabiliti es: my stammer, anxiety and depression were made significantly worse by the death of my father in January 2015.

  • Anonymous A long passive sentence No!
  • Especially not with a personal pronoun as agent.
  • However, I did not complete the first year of the course as a result of my disabiliti es: my stammer, anxiety and depression were made significantly worse by the death of my father in January 2015.
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AnonymousA long passive sentence
No! Especially not with a personal pronoun as agent.

However, I did not complete the first year of the course as a result of my disabilities: my stammer, anxiety and depression were made significantly worse by the death of my father in January 2015.

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