CIO 2019 01-04 D1 HW4

NAME__________________________________________________ February 6th, 2019

THE PASSIVE: MIXED TENSES
Change the sentences from active to passive, or from passive to active, as appropriate:
1. City workers don’t collect garbage from containers on weekends.
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2. They left the chairs out in the garden for weeks, and now they are useless.
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3. They have never charged customers for coffee refills at the corner’s diner.
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4. When we got home, our neighbor was being taken to the hospital in an ambulance.
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5. My brother’s daughters are organizing his 50th birthday party.
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6. The streets will be closed by the transit authority 2 hours before the parade.
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7. The car that I wanted had been sold long before I went to the dealership.
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8. Somebody will take care of your complaint right away.
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9. Your furniture cannot be delivered before the end of the week.
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10. You shouldn’t leave the lights on when you’re not home.
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Complete the text with the appropriate tense of the verbs supplied, in either active or
passive voice:

Walt Disney (take) _______________ animation to a new level. He (create) __________________

Mickey Mouse, (add) _______________ sound and music to his movies, and (produce)
_________________ the first full-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Many
people think he was a great cartoonist, but he was not; instead, he was a great story editor and
clever businessman who had other artists do most of the drawings.
Today, most animated films (draw, neg.) __________________ by hand. The animation (do)
_________________ by computer software; also, special effects for movies, such as Star Wars,
(make) _____________________ by computers. To create the illusion of movement, an image (put)
_________________ on the computer, and then, it (replace) ____________________ quickly by a
similar image with a small change. While this technique is similar to hand-drawn animation, the
work (carry out) _________________ much faster using a computer. In fact, anyone with a home
computer and special software can create a simple animation.