EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice

EXERCISE 8–3Identifying active and passive voice

Click on Active if the sentence is in the active voice; click on Passive if the sentence is in the passive voice.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 1 of 10: Customer statements are sent out by the phone company on the last day of each month.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 2 of 10: For safety, the walkway to Bonner Hall is swept every night.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 3 of 10: To save the patient’s life, the physician administered CPR.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 4 of 10: Diamond engagement rings were made popular in the 1940s by the De Beers diamond company.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 5 of 10: Amanda often dresses her fluffy lap dog in little pink clothes.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 6 of 10: Hoping to attract more students to the math department, Dr. Harvey started teaching a course on the beauty of mathematical concepts.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 7 of 10: Facebook, a popular social networking site, was started by Mark Zuckerberg when he was in college.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 8 of 10: Job analysts expect the demand for nurses to remain high through the next decade.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 9 of 10: The campus sustainability program was started by a small group of student volunteers.

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EXERCISE 8–3 Identifying active and passive voice - 10 of 10: Our nutrition instructor explained the benefits of eating dark green vegetables.