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Writing a maximum of 2 pages not counting direct quotations from the text and answering each question in coherent text, carry out the following tasks based on the text "CME Raises Bid for GFI Group as Hostile Counteroffer Looms":
a) Identify all sentences and clauses containing passive constructions and explain exactly what makes each of those constructions passive rather than active.
b) List all relative clauses (whether full or reduced) containing passive constructions.
c) For all reduced relative clauses containing passives, rewrite these clauses as full relative clauses.
d) Read the following paragraph (paragraph 9) from the text carefully:
"BGC, which is headed by Howard W. Lutnick, the chairman and chief executive of the investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, had said it was willing to pay about $5.25 a share, or about $675 million, in cash in a hostile bid for the firm, and would present a tender offer directly to shareholders."
Would it have been correct to formulate that same paragraph as follows? Explain why or why not as the case may be:
"BGC which is headed by Howard W. Lutnick, the chairman and chief executive of the investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald, had said it was willing to pay about $5.25 a share, or about $675 million, in cash in a hostile bid for the firm, and would present a tender offer directly to shareholders."
e) Read the following paragraph (paragraph 12) from the text carefully:
"Barclays and the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom advised CME and Jefferies Group advised GFI, while the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher advised the management consortium. A special committee of GFI's independent directors is being advised by Greenhill & Company and the law firm White & Case."
1. Rewrite the paragraph such that all sentences appear in the active voice.
2. Discuss whether this change of voice affects the coherence of the sentences in the paragraph.
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