Passive Exercise


Directions: Read the following sentences (some of which are taken from IELTS writing tasks). In each sentence, underline the more appropriate verb form (passive or active verbs). The first sentence has been done for you as an example.


1. While slightly more women than men buy pop music, the rock market (is nominated / nominates) by men with 30% buying rock, compared to 18% of women.

2. One obvious way of doing this is to offer extra money to employers who (are seen / see) to be working hard and this can be done in companies with a product to sell.

3. The graph (is suggested/ suggests) that households with televisions increased by 8% from 1998 to 2000.

4. It (can be argued / can argue) that fathers and mothers should have equal roles in bringing up their children.

5. The Ministry (is believed / believed) that between 50,000 to 100,000 people in this country are likely to be carrying the virus.

6. In the past, excellent staff members (were usually singled out / usually singled out) with the help of clients.

7. The problem (could have been solved / could have solved) long before if the government had received full cooperation from the private sector.

8. It is true to say that ‘evolutionism’ (is considered / considers) unacceptable by most modern anthropologists.

9. In both men and women the signs and symptoms of candidal infection (can be divided / can divide) by those caused by the infection itself and those caused by the allergic reaction of the fungus.

10. Drunk driving (is resulted / results) in an alarming rate of car accidents.

 

 

Passive Use in IELTS
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