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Indian Navy SSR (Sailor) Active Passive Voice — practice questions — page 3

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Order the steps: turn a passive sentence activeRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: when the passive cannot be undoneRead the answer and worked solution →Can this verb go passive?Read the answer and worked solution →Spotting the agentRead the answer and worked solution →Spot the one that does not belongRead the answer and worked solution →Assertion and reason: transformationRead the answer and worked solution →Flip and pair: active with its passiveRead the answer and worked solution →

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Order the steps: turn a passive sentence active

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Steps
  1. Find the subject, which is really the thing acted upon
  2. Find the agent, after 'by', or work out who it must be
  3. Make that agent the new subject
  4. Put the verb into its active form
  5. Make the old subject the object of that verb
The reverse transformation: the agent has to be recovered first. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), sections 209-211.

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True or false: when the passive cannot be undone

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Questions
  1. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    A passive sentence with no agent may have no unique active form.
  2. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    'Mistakes were made' leaves the doer unnamed.
  3. Statement is true
    No
    Statement
    Every passive sentence can be turned active with certainty.
  4. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    Recovering the agent is the first step of the reverse change.
  5. Statement is true
    Yes
    Statement
    The agent follows 'by' when it is stated.
If the agent was dropped, it may not be recoverable at all. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), sections 209-211.

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Can this verb go passive?

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Items
  1. Item
    A transitive verb
    Category
    Can go passive
  2. Item
    A verb that takes an object
    Category
    Can go passive
  3. Item
    An intransitive verb
    Category
    Cannot go passive
  4. Item
    A verb with no object
    Category
    Cannot go passive
Categories
  1. Item
    Can go passive
  2. Item
    Cannot go passive
Only a verb with an object has something to promote. Source: An English Grammar, Baskervill and Sewell (1896), sections 209-211.

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