Revised Passive Voice Exercise

1. Our New Year's Eve party was attended by over one hundred people.

1. Over one hundred people attended our New Year's Eve party.

2. A $10,000 payoff was won at the race track by some lucky bettor.

2. Some lucky bettor won a $10,000 payoff at the race track.

3. A challenge is intended when an unbroken stare is kept up by one person with another person.

3. An unbroken stare between two people suggests a challenge.

4. It is often considered foolish to volunteer personal information to a stranger, but to conceal personal information from a friend is considered unforgivable.

4. To volunteer personal information is foolish, but to conceal personal information from a friend is unforgivable.

5. Some could be seen in the distance, and the sound of sirens could be heard above the normal street noises.

5. Smoke rose in the distance, and sirens screamed above the normal street noises.

6. Many times students can be depressed by school.

6. Many times school depresses students.

7. If more research was done many diseases could be permanently wiped out.

7. If scientists conducted more research, they could eliminate many diseases.

8. A student's outlook is molded by many influences in his environment.

8. Many environmental influences mold a student's outlook.

9. Fanciful and exaggerated stories are frequently told by children with no intent of deceiving.

9. With no intent of deceiving, children often tell fanciful and exaggerated stories.

10. Sports should not be emphasized so much, but playing a certain sport is fine as long as it is not taken to certain extremes.

10. We should not emphasize sports so much but we can play a sport as long as we do not take it to certain extremes.

11. Billions of dollars are spent annually on the race into space by our government.

11. Our government spends billions of dollars annually on the race into space.

12. This money could be spent on more basic problems of the people until the problems of society have been solved.

12. Until we solve some of our major problems, we should spend this money on immediate problems.