Rewrite these passive sentences in the active form. Begin with the word (s) given. 1. The first fax machines were installed in 1988. The Firm_____________________ 2. Further modifications will be made to this service to other customers.

2 is correct. Sentence 1 would make sense if you had been working at the library, answering the phone. People kept calling to ask whether the library was open. Since it's a passive sentence, we don't know who was calling.

"A job was offered to him" is a correct passive sentence, but it doesn't make use of the original (him) as the subject, as required by the exercise. Likewise, #2 could have been "A considerable sum of money was left to Brenda by her father" - but

I agree with Marius Hancu's correction. On a more general point, some of these passives are a pain in the neck for teachers and students. The logical transformation of "They offered him a job" is "A job was offered to him", based on transforming

Clive has given you the right answer. As an aside, I would like to point out that although make takes a plain/bare infinitive (infinitive without to ) in the active voice, in a passive sentence to must be used: It made me smile . They were made to

Alien Is it a passive sentence to say the song to be sung by people?

According to my OALD, you are correct: "adjective finished (with sb/sth) no longer doing sth or dealing with sb/sth: I won’t be finished for another hour . I’m not finished with you yet . " It seems that it's not a passive sentence...

Kate was overworked ; this is not passive voice since Kate was not acted upon. SV+ predicative adjective The premises staff cleaned the floor . This is an active sentence where the verb is in past tense. SVO The papers should be photocopied.

This is off the internet too, Abmateen, but I could do no better: Personal Passive simply means that the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. So every verb that needs an object (transitive verb) can form a

Clive wrote: Hi, odd - adjective : beyond or deviating from the usual or expected You didn't state your point. Mine is that I don't find 'The trains collided by a river' to be an unusual sentence. Nor do I find it unexpected, since I had