What are examples for impersonal passive?
The impersonal passive: is a formal way of reporting thoughts, saying, beliefs and opinions. Examples: - People say that children are afraid of ghosts. It is said that children are afraid of ghosts. - People say that this orchestra is the best in the world.
What is impersonal passive voice in English?
The impersonal passive voice is a verb voice that decreases the valency of an intransitive verb (which has valency one) to zero. The impersonal passive deletes the subject of an intransitive verb. In place of the verb's subject, the construction instead may include a syntactic placeholder, also called a dummy.