Thursday, 15 October 2020

CHAPTER 10. THE PASSIVE (6) FUNDAMENTAL OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR

 

FUNDAMENTAL OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR

CHAPTER 10. THE PASSIVE

 

10-4 USING THE BY-PHRASE


 

EXERCISE 8. The By-phrase.

Directions: Change the sentences from active to passive. Include the by-phrase only if necessary.

1

Bob Smith built that house.

That house was built by Bob Smith.

2

Someone built this house in 1904.

This house was built in 1904. (Someone = unnecessary)

3

People grow rice in India.

4

Do people speak Spanish in Peru?

5

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

6

When did someone invent the first computer?

7

People sell hammers at a hardware store. People use them to pound nails.

8

Someone will list my name in the new telephone directory.

9

Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species.

10

Someone published The Origin of Species in 1859

11

Has anyone ever hypnotized you?


12

Someone has changed the name of this street from Bay Avenue to Martin Luther King Way.

 

ANSWER KEY


 

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