Active-Passive Voice

Rewrite the following sentences by changing the active sentences to passive OR

passive to active.
Active : Patrick takes the ball. Patrick took the balls.
Passive : The ball is taken by Patrick. The balls were
taken by Patrick.

1. The exercise is completed by the teacher.

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2. This book was written by an Irishman.

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3. She reads the newspaper every day.

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4. Lots of houses were destroyed by the earthquake in 1906.
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5. The man steals the blue car.

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6. The police arrested the thieves.

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7. Tom and Max ate five hamburgers.

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8. Grandmother told good stories.

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Subject-Verb Agreement
Circle the correct answer.

My sister 1 (live, lives, are living, has live) on the ground floor of a two-story
apartment and hates living there. For one thing, many cats in her neighbourhood 2

(howl, howled, is howling, had howled) right below her bedroom window all night
and knock over her garbage cans. One cat waits patiently outside her door until she 3
(open, opens, was opened, have opened) it and then 4 (pounce, pounces, are

pouncing, have pounced) on her feet, ruining her stockings. However, the people
living upstairs 5 (is, are, was, were) even worse than the cats. The mother starts a fire
almost every month because she 6 (forget, forgets, are forgetting, had forgotten)

to turn off the stove when she leaves the kitchen, and the daughter faithfully practices
her gymnastics every evening just as my sister 7 (sit, sits, are sitting, have sat) down

to study. Even more annoying, the father parks his car in my sister's parking space and
8 (peek, peeks, are peeking, had peeked) in every time he goes past her front

window, so she always 9 (has, have, had) to keep her curtains closed. All in all, living
there 10 (is, are, was, were) not a pleasant experience for my poor sister.