Passive Voice: Chapter Wrap-up

The Grammar HELP!  Student Handbook - Online!

We have now concluded our lessons on Passive Voice. 
Today's Grammar HELP! Student Handbook - Online! lesson presents an additional opportunity for practice and for self-assessment. You can also use this quiz as a pre-test. The quiz covers all issues in passive voice that we have covered in this chapter.

You can review this unit, Passive Voice, before you begin today's quiz.

Editing Practice #2

 


The following sentences are from ESL students' writing. Find the problems(s) in passive voice in each sentence and correct them.
Check your answers when you are done.

1.  ...most of the banks were closed.

2.  Frederick Douglass was not allowed to ....

3.  The two men were badly needed by ...

4.  Fruit trees ... were grown in many backyards ...

5.  Love must be based on ..

6.  Teenagers are more easily influenced by ...

7.  Albert Einstein will be remembered for ...

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