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Open the brackets using the right forms of the verb in the Active or Passive Voice. Entitle the text.\nEnglish (speak) by approximately 330 to 360 million people as their first language. There are six large countries with a majority of native English speakers that sometimes (group) under the term Anglosphere. In numbers of English speakers they are: The United States (258 million), the United Kingdom (58 million), Canada (32 million), Australia (20 million), Ireland (4.5 million) and New Zealand (3.8 million). Although the United States federal government has no official languages, English (give) official status by 32 of the 50 US state governments. Many countries in Africa and Asia also (use) English as their primary and official language. India has the biggest number of native and non-native English speakers than any other country in the world. This (be) a result of the influence of British colonization in the area.\nSince English (speak) so widely, it (refer) often to as a "world language". English is the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Chinese and Spanish. It (teach) most often as a foreign language in the European Union, in Russia, etc. English is one of the official languages of the United Nations and many other international organizations, including the International Olympic Committee. It also (use) as the official language for aeronautical and maritime communications and as one of two co-official languages (besides the Russian language) for astronauts serving on board the International Space Station. This increasing global use of English (have) lately a large impact on many other languages, leading to language shift and even language death, and to claims of linguistic imperialism
