Assignment:
Passive-Voice Verbs
1. Beuase. Our liability insurance no longer covers visitors; we are postponing requests for company tours indefinitely.
2. Your car rental insurance coverage does not cover large SUVs.
Subordinating Bad News
Your Task.
1) We were forced to stop taking orders for flowers the week before Mother's Day. To make up for this disappointment, we apologize and ask you to try again with free shipping for the next week.
2) We now offer all of our catalog choices at our website, which is always current. We are sorry to report that we no longer mail print catalogs. Our sustainability goals made it impossible for us to continue doing that.
3) We appreciate your interest in our organization, but we are unable to extend an employment offer to you at this time.
Implying Bad News
4) We cannot ship our fresh fruit baskets c.o.d. Your order was not accompanied by payment, so we are not shipping it. We have it ready, though, and will rush it to its destination as soon as you call us with your credit card number.
5) Because of the holiday period, all our billboard space was used this month. Therefore, we are sorry to say that we could not give your charitable group free display space. However, next month, after the holidays, we hope to display your message as we promised.