to keep the focus on the action/ who did it, or if the agent is unknown or unimportant  - I was hired because of my background in psychology , to create a less/ more impersonal or objective style, for example in business or scientific reports, to make rules seem particularly directed - the HR department has been downsized in the past year., We use get+past participle in informal/ formal speech with active verbs to refer to an action that happens by accident or unexpectedly. - … If something gets broken, to focus on new or unknown information by putting it at the beginning/ end of the sentence. - A. I haven’t seen that building before. B. No, it was built last year., To report facts, opinions using verbs like ‘report, show, estimate, guess, believe, reckon, suppose, say, understand’, expectations if we are certain/ not certain. - It is estimated that a fifth of the staff have been to see HR at some time in the past year.,

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