Turn from active to passive a. someone is her with the housework. b. the mail-order company sent mrs green a parcel. c. my friend sent me an invitation. d. the secretary has given mrs jones some letters. e. the traffic warden had already given him a ticket for illegal parking. f. john gave elizabeth that beautiful ring. g. her students have sent her flowers.

The passive voice is constructed by placing the normal subject of a sentence at the end making it the agent of a passive voice sentence, at the same time the object of the sentence becomes the new subject of the sentence. The agent still performs the action of the verb, but the verbal structure is placed before the agent to stress the importance of the action over the agent who executes the action. Example:

Active sentence example: subject + verb +object

I eat pizza every day.

passive sentence conversion:  object + verb + agent

Pizza was eaten by me.

sometimes the agent is not even present in the passive voice because it is not that important.

Now that we know how to make it, let's change these sentences from active to passive:

Turn from Active to Passive

a.Someone is helping her with the housework.

She is being helped with her homework.

b.The mail-order company sent Mrs Green a parcel.

Mrs. Green was sent a parcel.

c.My friend sent me an invitation.

I was sent an invitation.

d.The secretary has given Mrs Jones some letters.

Mrs. Jones has been given some letters.

e.The traffic warden had already given him a ticket for illegal parking.

He had already been given a ticket for illegal parking.

f.John gave Elizabeth that beautiful ring.

Elizabeth was given that beautiful ring.

g.Her students have sent her flowers.

She has been sent flowers.

I hope this helps you.

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

yes the first one is correct .