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the statement that best summarizes samantha's claim is c. fast food restaurants would profit from offering vegan meals.

samantha explains her experience as a vegan going to eat to fast food restaurants and she concludes her argument by saying "by not offering vegan meals, fast food restaurants are missing out on additional sales." in this conclusion, readers can infer that samantha believes fast food restaurants would increase their sales if they offered vegan meals and, thus, profit from it.

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i'm unsure whether this sentence is active or passive voice.

    i want to be there when the final match is played at wimbledon.

when we marked it, the teacher said that it was passive voice, but isn't the subject ("i") doing the action, which makes it active? can someone explain?

passive-voice

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    it's not the matrix clause that is passive, but just the subordinate clause functioning as complement of "when", i.e. the final match is played at wimbledon. it's a 'short passive' in that there is no internalised complement (by phrase). the subject of the subordinate passive clause is "the final match". "i" is subject of the matrix clause. – billj jun 13 '17 at 15: 29

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