Business English 10th Edition by Mary Ellen Guffey,Carolyn Seefer

Exercise 89

Writing Exercise. Careful writers use the active voice in business and professional communications when they want to identify the "doer" of the action. To give you practice, rewrite the following sentences changing their passive-voice verbs to active voice. Normally you can change a verb from passive to active voice by making the doer of the action-usually contained in a by phrase-the subject of the sentence.
Example: (Passive) Production costs must be reduced by manufacturers.
(Active) Manufacturers must reduce production costs._______________________________________
Massive short-term financing is used by Nike to pay off its production costs during its slow season.
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