Identify the tenses of the underlined verbs.

1. Jack will be applying early to college this year.

2. The Red Sox have been pursuing various free agents.
3. LHS will adopt a new cell phone policy on January 5, 2010.
4. The temperature dropped precipitously last night.
5. Most students sleep through X-block.
6. Military leaders have lobbied aggressively for more troops in Afghanistan.
7. Many students are hoping that our first snow day will come soon.
8. When she woke up Alexis had thought that she would try snowboarding, but
when she got to the mountain she decided to stick with skiing.
9. On Saturday Zoe will have been living for four weeks!
10. My wife was hoping that Zoe would sleep more last night.
11. I trust that by Friday you all will have studied for many hours.
12. I was excited for dinner because my brother had been working hard in the kitchen
all day.

Identify the verbs as passive or active. Try to re-write the passive voice sentences in the
active voice.

1. Samuel hitchhiked from Minneapolis to Mexico City.

2. Tyler’s first film was shot on 8 mm film.
3. There is a modest recording studio set up in Trip’s apartment.
4. The band’s first record sounded a lot like the Velvet Underground.
5. The patient was examined with meticulous care by the kindly old doctor.
6. The ailing man strained his eyes to make out the letters and numbers on the chart
five feet from his face.
7. The rules of the game had been exhaustively explained in advance of the contest.

Try to write a few paragraphs—one in which the primary tense is present, one in which it
is past, and one in which it is future.
1. Either the physicians in this hospital or the chief administrator
____ going to have to make a decision.
(is, are)

2. ______ my boss or my sisters in the union going to win this

grievance? (is, are)

3. Some of the votes __________ to have been miscounted. (seem,

seems)

4. The tornadoes that tear through this county every spring _____
more than just a nuisance. (are, is)

5. Everyone selected to serve on this jury _____ to be willing to give up

a lot of time. (have, has)

6. Kara Wolters, together with her teammates, _________ a

formidable opponent on the basketball court. (present, presents)

7. He seems to forget that there __________ things to be done before

he can graduate. (are, is)

8. There _______ to be some people left in that town after

yesterday's flood.
(have, has)

9. Some of the grain __________ to be contaminated. (appear, appears)

10. Three-quarters of the students __________ against the tuition hike.

(is, are)

11. Three-quarters of the student body __________ against the tuition

hike. (is, are)

12. A high percentage of the population _________ voting for the new
school. (is, are)

13. A high percentage of the people _________ voting for the new
school. (was, were)

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