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Active-Passive Voice - Post Test

DIRECTIONS:  Change each passive voice sentence into the active voice.  If the passive voice sentence contains no doer of the action, make one up for your answer sentence.

 

1.  More than 7,000 cigarettes a year are consumed by a pack-a-day smoker.

 

2.  The smell of fresh-cut grass had never before been known by most of these children.

 

3.  All necessary repairs will be performed by a licensed company.

 

4.  The impropriety of unauthorized copying is often overlooked by users in an educational setting.

 

5.  An Assignment Review Board should be appointed by the Senate Committee on Judiciary Affairs.

 

6.  The Board will be given authority by the company to approve job descriptions and training programs.

 

7.  Similar information must have been given to Jason. (create subject)

 

8.  The children should be put to bed before 10:00 p.m. (create subject)

 

9.  The public was told very little about the incident at the prison.  (create subject)

 

10. Detailed experiments to assess the resiliency of the new product were conducted in 2002 by engineers from the company.

 

For further information on these resources, contact
Margaret L. Benner
benner@towson.edu

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