Grammar exercises

Grammar: Passive Voice

Ex.1. Make up 5 sentences from each table, define the grammar form of predicate:

We are always given much home-task in English (Present Indefinite Passive).

Нам завжди задають велике домашнє завдання з англійської мови.

The newspaper “Kyiv Post”	am is are may be		classified read asked radioed regarded	in a number of ways.
Crimes				by many people in Ukraine and abroad.
This information				often at the lessons.
I				as offences which will lead to injury to the public.
Extortion, bribery and perjury				to the Detective Department.
These two cars	was were	not answered made shared driven away spoken		much about last week.
Responsibility for improvement of the road network				in English by our cadet Taras Bondarchuk.
This road accident				last year.
The report “Classification of crimes” at the International conference				by the criminal.
The question of the judge				between central and local government.

The investigation of this case	will be	signed finished repaired caught packed	next week.
Those cars			tomorrow.
The report of our chief			in a month.
This criminal			in half an hour.
Your things			by policemen in a few days.

A person and vehicle check	is being are being	translated built conducted committed constructed	by young criminals in cities and towns now.
A lot of crimes			by a police officer.
A new building			by the first-year cadets now.
This text			on the territory of our University.
Many new houses			in Kyiv.

The report about felonies in this district	was being were being	driven read discussed translated	by the cadet Roman Petrusenko when I came into his room
A new book on criminology			out of the city from 3 till 5 a.m.
Stolen cars			in the Investigation p.m. Department from 5 till 7 p.m. yesterday.

My watch	has been have been	taken robbed stolen built committed	to prison for their crimes.
This bank			by a thief.
Some pickpockets			by the time of its opening.
Some cars			during night hours.
The new underground station			this year.

My car	had been	translated signed stolen adopted robbed	by the 1^st of January, 2000.
The treaty between British Police and Ukrainian Militia on cooperation in fighting against drug dealers			by the coming of our professor.
This scientific article			by the time when I came.
The Post Office			by the end of the meeting.
The resolution			by the opening of it.

Ex.2. Put the following sentences into interrogative and negative forms. Translate them:

1. The activity of Militia is regulated both by legislative and departmental documents.

2. The tickets to Lviv were booked yesterday.

3. Non-indictable offences are known as summary offences.

4. Originally treasons are regarded as the most serious of all crimes.

5. He was robbed of all his money yesterday.

6. Felony is regarded as a very serious crime.

7. The group of foreign policemen was shown the Museum of Ukrainian Art during their stay in Kyiv.

8. The indictable or more serious crimes may be classified into six categories.

9. The travellers have been attacked in the mountains and robbed of everything they had.

Ex.3. Put the following sentences into the Passive Voice:

Yesterday a boy broke the window in the house.

– Yesterday the window in the house was broken by a boy.

1. The Militiamen arrested this young boy for his crime yesterday.

2. A motorist killed the pedestrian after an evening’s drinking.

3. A customs officer is checking the passenger’s luggage.

4. By the coming of the investigator the militia officer had found the pistol in the room.

5. A murderer has killed a young girl.

6. They were selling drugs when the police officer came up to them.

7. They often ask questions at the lessons.

8. Our guide has shown the Museum of Militia of Ukraine to the foreign policemen.

9. He killed a young girl with a knife some days ago.

10. A militiaman had arrested the criminal before the expert criminalist arrived.

11. The first-year cadets were reading many books on law during the first three months of their studies.

12. The builders have built a new church on the territory of the Central Hospital of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.

13. They spoke much about the report “Classification of crimes” at the International conference on Law.

14. They are discussing the report about the felonies in this district.

15. A group of men killed some customers in a pub by leaving a bomb there.

16. Police arrested two groups of rival football supporters who started a battle.

Ex.4. Put the questions to the italicized words:

1. Ukraine has been recognized by 152 states.

2. People were impressed by American President’s knowledge of Ukrainian poetry, when he recited some lines by Taras Shevchenko.

3. The National Anthem of Ukraine was created by Mikhailo Verbytskyi and Pavlo Chubynskyi in the 19^th century.

4. The tools of investigator are referred to as the three “I”s, namely, Information, Interrogation and Instrumentation.

5. The train to Lviv has been announced.

Ex.5. Retell the story, using the Passive Voice:

Police constable Drake is sipping his usual dram of whisky after his late shift and tells his wife about the day.

“Today we stopped Mr. Merry from Beer in Devon. We asked him to show us his papers. As he seemed to be drunk, we breathalyzed him and then told him to get out of his car. Then we left his car where it was and escorted him on foot to the police station. There we called a doctor who took a blood sample. Finally we put him in our detention cell to sober up.”

Two days later Mr Merry tells his wife:”The day before yesterday I was stopped …”

breathalyze someone зробити комусь алкотест

blood sample аналіз крові

detention cell медвитверезник

dram (тут) чарка

sip пити маленькими ковтками

sober up протверезитися

Ex.6. Translate into English.

1. Розслідування кримінальної справи буде завершено до нового року.

2. Злочинець був заарештований поліцейським перед тим, як прибув експерт-криміналіст.

3. Це завдання було розв’язано курсантами.

4. Наказ був вчора підписаний начальником.

5. Цей англійський текст зараз перекладається курсантом Богданом Романенко.

6. Повідомлення було одержано о 5 годині вечора.

UNIT 9

Topic: Description of a PERSON

Grammar: Types of Questions