Exercise 1. Insert the required tense (Passive Voice).

1. "I don't want to hear another word. I ____ never ____ so ____ in my whole life. (to insult) (/. Shaw) 2. But what shall I do if you ____? (to kill) (Shaw) 3. Godfrey waited, before he spoke again, until the ale ____ and the door ____ (to bring, to close) (Eliot) 4. In whatever spare time he could find, he read the current research journals, trying to understand the implications of theexperiments which ____ throughout the world. (to perform) {Wilson) 5.Merriman, order the dog-cart at once. Mr. Ernest ____ suddenly to town. (to call back) (Wilde) 6. Upon the Docto and the widow the eyes of both Mr. Tupman and his companion ____ for some time, when, the stranger broke silence. (to fix) {Dickens) 7. In 1834, the Houses of Parliament, with the. exception of Westminster Hall ____ by fire. They ____ by Sir Charles Barry. (to destroy, to rebuild) 8. "I'm afraid that we're going to have to move," he said. "This lab won't be big enough for us after all. But there's a double room on the eleventh floor that ____." (to use — negative) {Wilson) 9. Lanny noticed that he ____ by three white men.from the coffee stall on the other side of the road. (to watch) 10. It was past eleven o'clock —a late hour for the little village of Cobham when Mr. Pickwick retired to the bedroom which ____ for his reception. (to prepare) {Dickens) 11. We ____ if we ____, but never mind. (to scold, to see) (Ch. Bronte) 12. The Nobel. Prize ____ to him in 1924 when the advent of wave mechanics had revealed the importance of his work, ten years after his famous experiment ____. (to give, to perform) (Wilson) 13. The camp of peace will not allow the outbreak of a new war that ____ by the imperialists. (to prepare) 14. I called... to ask if a diamond brooch of mine ____. (to find) (Wilde) 15. The tea-things ____ scarcely ____... when the London coach deposited Mr. Weller, senior, at the door. (to put away) (Dickens) 16. Annette's most valuable stone was ruby, which ____ to her when she was twelve by an Indian prince who was in love with her mother. (to give) (Murdoch) 17. He [Jim] put down his pail... and bent over the toe with absorbing interest while the bandage ____ (to unwind) (Twain)18. He carefully examined the contents of his case, and did not speak again until the bееn ____ and he had paid for it. (to bring) (Priestley) 19.The little patient ____ and ____, and now lay composed in her crib. (to examine, to. soothe) (Ch. Bronte) 20. It was an idea that ____ at that moment ____ by Colonel Melchett and Colonel Bantry. (to discuss) (Christie) 21. Lanny ____ cruelly,heartlessly in the wey Sam ____ When he ____, the barking of a dog ____. It ____ by hurried footsteps. (to beat, to beat, to beat, to hear, to follow).22. He [Arthur] went up to his room. Nothing in it ____ since his arrest. (to change) (Voynich) 23. You can feel when you ____.(to watch) (Hilton) 24. The oldest of London's present-day theatres is the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, which ____ in 1663 and ____ since ____ several times. (to open, to reconstruct) 25. Below decks the atmosphere was close… Many cigarettes ____ and ____. (to smoke, to smoke) (Clark) 26. She kept an eye on the Leanham people to see that her action ____ duly ____... (to notice) (Maugham) 27. Rumania is a Balkan State which ____ long ____ for its mineral springs.(to know) (Maugham) 28. After a few routine questions ____ and ____ Dr. Lord leant back in his chair and smiled at his, patient. (to ask, to answer) (Christie) 29. Ettore was twenty-three. He ____ by an uncle in San Francisco and was visiting his father and mother- in Torino when war ____. (to bring up, to declare) (Hemingway) 30. He strode up to the front door of the forlorn house and rang the bell like one who ____ there for weeks. (to expect) (Priestley) 31. After lunch, we heard that Charles Lenton ____ for. (to send) (Snow) 32. Breakfast ____ scarcely ____...when a waiter brought in Mr. Dowler's card. (to clear away) (Dickens) 33. One could not walk or drive about Philadelphia without seeing or being impressed with the general tendency toward a more cultivated and selective social life. Many excellent and expensive houses ____. (to erect) (Dreiser) 34. I ____ constantly ____ in the street. I like it. It gives an amuse­ ment to the dullest walk. (to follow) (Maugham) 35. A minute earlier, a small boy with a partly deflated red balloon had run out into the cleared forbidden street. He ____ just ____ and ____ back to the curb by his father... (to capture; to- drag)- (Salinger) 36....the railway ____ at all at that time. (to use — negative) (Shute) 37. Antonia: Thank you. Thank you. Martin: What ____ I____ for? (to thank) (Murdoch and Priestley) 38. The gentleman was so startled that he, took the night train for the. Continent and ____, never ____ of since. (to hear) (Maugham)

Exercise 2. State where the combination to be + Participle II is a simple predicate and. where it is a compound nominal predicate.

1. Mr. Dorrit's rooms were reached. Candles were lighted. The attendants withdrew. (Dickens) 2. The door was instantly opened. (Ch,- Bronte) 3. I have been treated and respected as a gentleman universally. (Dickens) 4. About noon, I. was summoned to dress madame. (Ch. Bronte) 5. My boxes are locked, strapped and la­belled; I hate being hurried. (Collins) 6. This brisk little affair was all settled before breakfast. (Ch. Bronte) 7. He was like a. man who had been separated from one he loved for many years... (Greene) 8. I stopped at a barber shop and was shaved and went home to the hospital. (Hemingway) 9. We shall have time to-morrow, when my packing is finished.(Voynich). 10. My wife and daughters were charmed with her. (Collins) 11. The purchase was completed within a month. (Dickens) 12. You are deceived. (Hardy) 13. The door was opened by a girl. (Priestley) 14. I'll b,a dressed in a min­ute. (Hemingway) 15. The small room was lit only by a dying fire and one candle with a shade over it. (Eliot) 16. A short bridge.. over a canal was blown up but we climbed across on what was left of the span. (Hemingway) 17. The chambermaid's curiosity was aroused at once. (Priestley) 18. Was your novel ever published? (Wilde) 19. He has not been well educated up to now. (Clark) 20. Huckleberry was filled with admiration of Tom's facility in writing and the sublimity of his language. (Twain) 21. The beds, which for years had been neglected, now were trim with the abominations of carpet bedding. (Maugham) 22. A whisper goes about the house that Mr. Dombey's hair is curled. (Dickens) 23.He was in the house when the diamond was lost. (Collins) 24. When at last the notes were finished, I typed them out.... {Hilton)25. Penn was fascinated and troubled by this suggestion. (Murdoch) 20. The big brightly lit stone-flagged kitchen was silent... The shutters were closed and barred. (Murdoch) 27. Red carpet was laid down for the occasion; hothouse plants and evergreens were arranged in bow­ers at the extremities and in every recess of the gallery. 28....perhaps you know that Mirah's brother is found!(Eliot ) 29. Another half-hour and all doors would be Socked —all lights ex­tinguished. (Ch. Bronte) 30. Sam's body was twisted and deformed. But he had not been born like that.... Early one morning farm laborers on their way to work from Stilleveld had come upon a twisted heap lying in the open. It had turned out to be Sam...The right side of his head had been crushed in, as though by a boot. Most of the ribs in the right side of his chest were broken. His right arm was broken in many places. (Abrahams) 31. The scoop, under the ranger's fence, cannily selected for his sleeping place, was overhung by branches. (Galsworthy) 32. My things are ail packed. (Hemingway). 33. Two doors opened out of it [the pas­sage] to the left and to the right. One of these had obviously been closed for many weeks. {Conan Doyle) 34. In the front room the bricks of the floor were being tumbled aside by the shoots from old tree-roots. (Lessing) 35. She realized that the old life was gone and done with. (Maugham)