PRESENT PASSIVE VOICE
What is the main reason we use the passive voice?
A) To emphasize who performs the action.
B) To emphasize the action or the receiver of the action.
C) To talk only about the past.
D) To express imaginary situations.
B) To emphasize the action or the receiver of the action.
The past passive describes an action that happened _______.
A) regularly
B) in the future
C) in the past
D) hypothetically
C) in the past
What kind of situations does the second conditional usually describe?
A) Facts
B) Completed past events
C) Imaginary or unlikely present/future situations
D) Daily routines
C) Imaginary or unlikely present/future situations
The third conditional is mainly used to imagine _______.
A) a different future
B) a different past
C) a daily routine
D) a general truth
B) a different past
What do we do when we use reported speech?
A) Repeat someone's exact words with quotation marks.
B) Tell another person what someone said.
C) Ask an imaginary question.
D) Describe an action without mentioning the agent.
B) Tell another person what someone said.
Complete the formula: Subject + _____ + past participle.
A) do/does
B) am/is/are
C) was/were
D) have/has
B — am/is/are
What is the correct structure?
A) was/were + past participle
B) had + past participle
C) would + verb
D) am/is/are + verb
A — was/were + past participle
Complete the structure: If + ________, would + base verb.
A) present simple
B) past simple
C) past perfect
D) present perfect
B — past simple
Complete the structure: If + had + past participle, ________.
A) would + verb
B) will + verb
C) would have + past participle
D) was/were + verb
C) would have + past participle
An artist says: “I am working on a new painting.” Which is the best reported version?
A) The artist said that she is working on a new painting.
B)The artist said she work on a new painting.
C) The artist told that she worked on a new painting.
D) The artist said that she was working on a new painting.
D) The artist said that she was working on a new painting.
Which sentence is in the present passive?
A) Artists paint murals every year.
B) The artists painted this mural.
C) Murals are painted every year.
D) The mural was painted last year.
C — Murals are painted every year.
Which sentence correctly describes a historical artwork?
A) The painting is create in 1889.
B) The painting was created in 1889.
C) The painting created in 1889.
D) The painting was create in 1889.
B) The painting was created in 1889.
Which sentence is correct?
A) If I would be an artist, I painted murals.
B) If I were an artist, I would paint murals.
C) If I am an artist, I would paint murals.
D) If I had been an artist, I would paint murals.
B) If I were an artist, I would paint murals.
Which sentence is correct?
A) If the director changed the ending, the audience would have liked it. B) If the director had changed the ending, the audience would have liked it.
C) If the director would have changed the ending, the audience liked it. D) If the director has changed the ending, the audience would like it.
B) If the director had changed the ending, the audience would have liked it.
What is normally the difference between say and tell?
A) There is no difference.
B) Tell normally needs a person/object after it; say does not.
C) Say is only used in questions.
D) Tell is only used in the past
B) Tell normally needs a person/object after it; say does not.
A student writes: “Traditional masks is display in the museum.” What is wrong, and how should the sentence be corrected?
Traditional masks are displayed in the museum.
Turn this into past passive voice: I am very happy
This sentence cannot be expressed in PPV since there is not object that receive the action :(
Find and correct the error: “If our school would have an art gallery, students would exhibit their work there.”
If our school had an art gallery, students would exhibit their work there.
Correct the mistake: “If the museum would have opened earlier, we would have visited the exhibition.”
If the museum had opened earlier, we would have visited the exhibition.
Change to reported speech: The museum guide said, “This sculpture is more than 500 years old.”
The museum guide said that the sculpture was more than 500 years old.
You are a museum guide. Change this information into the passive voice: “Local artists create these sculptures from recycled materials.”
These sculptures are created from recycled materials by local artists.
A journalist writes: “The city organized the first film festival in 1998.” Rewrite the sentence so that the festival, not the city, is the focus.
The first film festival was organized in 1998.
Imagine your school gives you an empty room and an unlimited budget to create a cultural exhibition. Complete and explain: “If I could create any exhibition, I would…”
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Explanation: must use If + past simple + would + base verb.
Your class arrived late and missed an important museum tour. Create a third conditional sentence explaining how the situation could have been different.
Example: If we had arrived earlier, we would have attended the museum tour.
You interviewed an illustrator yesterday. She told you: “I started drawing when I was six, and I am preparing a new graphic novel now.” Report her words to the class.
She said that she had started drawing when she was six and that she was preparing a new graphic novel then.