A1FH Unit 3 Quality

When can we use passive structures?

• To avoid blaming someone.

• To avoid taking responsibility for something.

• To say who did something.

• When we feel like it.

The ISO compliance offices will visit next week.

Next week the factory will ______________ by ISO compliance officers.

The design team has finalized the technial specifications.

The technical specifications ________________ by the design team.

We all agreed that we need more auditors.

It _______________ that the comany needs more auditors.

Affirmative

The staff have been poorly trained. Their work is substandard.

Negative

The staff ______________ well.

Affirmative

This machine is serviced regularly.

Question

__________________________?

Personal question

Have you finished writing the new resource management report yet?

Impersonal question

Has the new resource managment report ______________ yet?

Passive modals

The company might have designed it like that on purpose.

It __________________ like that on purpose.

We are ________________ redesigned.

• have the shoddy packaging

• will have the shoddy packaging

• having the shoddy packaging

• had the shoddy packaging