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Exercise 13.12
In the following paragraph Ahmed describes the time when he was in a serious
car accident. Some of the verbs use the passive voice while others use the active voice. Select
the correct form of the verb in parentheses and write in the space provided.
Did I ever tell about the time when my car (1) _______(hit) by a truck?
Well, it was something! A large truck (2) _______ (hit) the front of my car. All of the lights and
the windshield (3) ________(shatter). The left fender of the car (4) ________ (crush). I was still
in the car and I (5) _______ (scare)! My cousin (6) ________ (get out), but I (7) _________
(trap) inside the car. My cousin Ali called 911 and (8) ________ (tell)
to go back to the car and
stay with me.
When he got back, it (9) ________ (begin) to rain. The clouds (10) __________ (burst) open and
the temperature (11) ______ (drop). I (12) ________(be) cold and miserable. When the
ambulance came, the paramedic discovered that the impact (13) __________ (break) my wrist. It
(14) _________ (break) when my hand (15) ________ (hit) the steering wheel.
At the moment I
promised myself never to rush to work again!
Exercise 13.13
Directions: Change the verbs to the passive as appropriate. Discuss why you
decide that certain verbs should be in the passive but others should remain active.
(1) Paper is a common material. People use it everywhere in the world. Throughout history, people
have made it from various plants, such as rice and papyrus, but today wood is the chief source of
paper.
In the past, people made paper by hand, but now machines do most of the work. Today
people make paper from wood pulp by using either a mechanical or a chemical process.
(2) In the mechanical process, someone grinds the wood into small chips. During the grinding,
someone sprays it with water to keep it from burning from the friction of the grinder. Then
someone soaks the chips in water.
(3) In the chemical process, first someone washes
the wood, and then someone cuts it into small
pieces in a chipping machine. Then someone cooks the chips in certain chemicals. After someone
cooks the wood, someone washes it to get rid of the chemicals.
(4) The next steps in making paper are the same for both the mechanical and the chemical
processes. Someone drains
the pulp to form a thick mass, bleaches it with chlorine, and then
thoroughly washes it again. Next someone puts the pulp through a large machine that squeezes the
water out and forms the pulp into long sheets. After the pulp sheets go through a drier and a press,
someone winds them onto rolls. These rolls of paper are then ready for use.
(5) The next time you use paper, you should think about its origin and how people make it. And
you should ask yourself this question: What would the world be like without paper? If you can
imagine how different today's
world would be without paper, you will immediately understand
how essential paper has been in the development of civilization.
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