Intransitive verbs

ACTIVE: An accident happened.

PASSIVE: (not possible).

Change the sentences to the passive if possible.

1. Jack walk to school yesterday.

2. We stayed in a hotel.

3. Susie broke the window.

4. The leaves fell to the ground.

5. I slept at my friend’s house last night.

6. The second baseman caught the ball.

7. Ann’s cat died last week.

8. That book belongs to me.

9. The airplane arrived twenty minutes late.

10. The teacher announced a quiz.

11. I agree with George.

12. Do you agree with me?

13. Dick went to the doctor’s office.

14. An accident happened at the corner of Third and Main.

15. An accident occurred at the corner of Third and Main.

16. Many people saw the accident.

Exercise 4: Change the sentences from active to passive. Include by phrase only if necessary.

1. Bob Smith built that house.

2. Someone built that house in 1980.

3. People grow rice in India.

4. People speak Spanish in Venezuela.

5. Do people speak Spanish in Peru?

6. Alexander Bell invented the telephone.

7. When did someone invent the wheel?

8. People sell hammers in a hardware store.

9. People use hammers to pound nails.

10. The president has canceled the meeting.

11. Someone has canceled the soccer game.

12. Someone will list my name in the new telephone directory.

13. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species.

14. Someone published The Origin of Species in 1859.

15. Someone serves beer and wine at that restaurant.

16. Has anyone ever hypnotized you?

17. Something confused me in class yesterday.

18. Something embarrassed me yesterday.

19. Someone filmed many of the Tarzan movies in the rain forest in Puerto Rico.

20. Someone has changed the name of this street from Bay Avenue to Martin Luther King Way.

Exercise 4: Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb.

1. Yesterday our teacher (arrive) five minutes late.

2. The morning paper (read) by over 200 000 people every day.

3. Last night my favorite TV program (interrupt) by a special news bulletin.

4. That’s not my coat. It (belong) to Louise.

5. Our mail (deliver) before noon every day.

6. The “b” in “comb” (pronounce, not). It is silent.

7. A bad accident (happen) on Highway 95 last night around midnight.

8. When I (arrive) at the airport yesterday, I (meet) by my cousin.

9.Yesterday I (hear) about Margaret’s divorce. I (surprise) by the news. Janice

(shock) .

10. A new house (build) next to ours next year.

11. Roberto (write) this composition last week. That one (write) by Ben.

12. Radium (discover) by Marie and Pierre Curie in 1898.

13. A: Do you understand the explanation in the book?

B: No, I don’t. I (confuse) by it.

14. A: Where are you going to school next year?

B: I (accept) by Eastern Mennonite University.

15. A: I think football is too violent.

B: I (agree) with you. I (prefer) baseball.

16. A: When (your bike, steal) ?

B: Two days ago.

17. A: (you, pay) your electric bill yet?

B: No, I haven’t, but I’d better pay it today. If I don’t my electricity (shut off) by the power company.

18. A: Did you hear about the accident?

B: No. What (happened) ?

A: A bicyclist (hit) by a taxi in front of the dorm.

B: (the bicyclist, injure) ?

A: Yes. Someone (call) an ambulance. The bicyclist (take) to the City Hospital

and (treat) in the emergency ward for cuts and bruises.

B: What (happen) to the taxi driver?

A: He (arrest) for reckless driving. He’s lucky the bicyclist (kill, not).

Exercise 5: Study the examples.

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