curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-use-reported-speech/683759d0c98f1b99fd7770db.md
Listen to the audio and answer the question below.
What negative comment did users make about the images?
They were hard to understand.
There's no mention of confusion or lack of clarity.
They didn't relate to the content.
The relevance of the images isn't discussed.
They were too large.
They had the wrong file names.
There's no mention of how the files were named.
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The structures that combine the verb to be in the Simple Past and verbs in the Past Participle form (were well received and was mentioned) are both in the passive voice. In these structures, the focus is on the action or result, not on the person doing it. Another example:
The update was released last week. – This focuses on the event (the release), not on who did it.
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"setup": {
"background": "company2-center.png",
"characters": [
{
"character": "Linda",
"position": {
"x": 50,
"y": 0,
"z": 1.4
},
"opacity": 0
}
],
"audio": {
"filename": "B1_21-2.mp3",
"startTime": 1,
"startTimestamp": 48.76,
"finishTimestamp": 54.2
}
},
"commands": [
{
"character": "Linda",
"opacity": 1,
"startTime": 0
},
{
"character": "Linda",
"startTime": 1,
"finishTime": 2.9,
"dialogue": {
"text": "The new images were well received,",
"align": "center"
}
},
{
"character": "Linda",
"startTime": 3.08,
"finishTime": 6.44,
"dialogue": {
"text": "but the size of some images was mentioned as being too large.",
"align": "center"
}
},
{
"character": "Linda",
"opacity": 0,
"startTime": 6.94
}
]
}