Passive Voice : Expansion And Review Test
The passive voice is used to show interest in the person or object that experiences an action rather than the person or object that performs the action. In other words, the most important thing or person becomes the subject of the sentence. Take the test below to gauge how conversant you are with these types of sentences.
- 1.The Mayas are believed ________________ a hundred years before the Spaniards came over.
- A.
Have dissappeared
- B.
Dissappeared
- C.
To have dissappeared
- D.
To dissappear
- 2.Which sentence is NOT correct?
- A.
It is thought that pure Mayas must have mixed with other tribes from different cultures
- B.
They think pure Mayas don't really exist nowadays since they mixed with other cultures.
- C.
Pure Mayas are thought to have mixed with other tribes from different cultures
- D.
They think don't really exist pure Mayas since they must have mixed with other cultures
- 3.Which is the only sentence that IS CORRECT?
- A.
They are used the dollars in El Salvador.
- B.
The dollar introduced by Francisco Flores government in 2001.
- C.
The dollar was officially accepted as national currency without asking people's opinions.
- D.
The dollar by them is used in El Salvador.
- 4.The area in which the Caribbean Islands __________________ extends from the East of United States and the north part of Venezuela.
- A.
Locate
- B.
Are located
- C.
Locates
- D.
Is located
- 5.New theory has revealed that Dinosaurs ________________________ because of a super giant volcano eruption in the area we know now as Yellowstone.
- A.
May dissapear
- B.
May have dissappeared
- C.
May were dissappeared
- D.
Have may dissappear
- 6.One of the biggest mysteries of modern history is the disappearance of MH370 flight of Malaysia Airline since no remains of the plane and people _______________________so far.
- A.
Have been found
- B.
Has been finding
- C.
Have found
- D.
Were found
- 7.How many mysteries do you think ______________still __________________?
- A.
Were / unsolved
- B.
Are / unsolved
- C.
They are / unsolved
- D.
It is / unsolving
- 8.The chief of the police department ____________ the DNA material ____________ by the criminology department last week.
- A.
Had / analyzed
- B.
Analyzed / had
- C.
Have / analyzed
- D.
Has / analyzed
- 9.Do you know where the new building _______________________? The committee decided on it yesterday, but I was not present.
- A.
Was constructed
- B.
Is going to be constructed
- C.
Has been constructed
- D.
Got it constructed
- 10.While the safe box ______________________ by the thieves, the police arrived and the shooting began. Two thieves were injured, and the three of them were arrested.
- A.
Was being opened
- B.
Was been opened
- C.
Had been opened
- D.
Was opened
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