Explain,with an example,how an impersonal construction can protect the reader's ego.

Students' responses will vary.To avoid blaming the reader,use an impersonal expression or a passive verb.Impersonal constructions omit people and talk only about things.Passive verbs describe the action performed on something,without necessarily saying who did it.Normally,writing is most lively when it's about people,and most interesting to readers when it's about them.When you have to report a mistake or bad news,however,you can protect the reader's ego by using an impersonal construction-one in which things,not people,do the acting.When you restrict the reader's freedom,talk about the group to which the reader belongs rather than about the reader as an individual.When you have negatives,third person (she,he,it)is better you-attitude than second person (you),because third person shows that everyone is being treated the same way.