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Sunday, December 21, 2008

THE PASSIVE Dec. 21

Change an active voice sentence to the passive voice, or change a passive voice sentence to the active voice.

The cookies had been eaten and the milk had been drunk by Santa when the kids woke up on Christmas morning.

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5 comments:

Anastasia said...

Santa ate the cookies and drank the milk as the kids were waking up on Christmas morning.

Tamara said...

Anastasia: Because you say "as the kids were waking up," the verb tense in the first part of the sentence needs to be changed.

Anastasia said...

Santa had already eaten the cookies as the kids were waking up on Christmas morning.

Joanne T said...

Santa had eaten the cookies and drank the milk by the time the kids woke up on Christmas morning.

Veronica Baig said...

JOANNE: Excellent answer:-)