Exercises
(_a_) Pick out the verbs in the active and the passive voice:--
1. In the large room some forty or fifty students were walking about
while the parties were preparing.
2. This was done by taking off the coat and vest and binding a great
thick leather garment on, which reached to the knees.
3. They then put on a leather glove reaching nearly to the shoulder,
tied a thick cravat around the throat, and drew on a cap with a large
visor.
4. This done, they were walked about the room a short time; their
faces all this time betrayed considerable anxiety.
5. We joined the crowd, and used our lungs as well as any.
6. The lakes were soon covered with merry skaters, and every afternoon
the banks were crowded with spectators.
7. People were setting up torches and lengthening the rafts which had
been already formed.
8. The water was first brought in barrels drawn by horses, till some
officer came and opened the fire plug.
9. The exclusive in fashionable life does not see that he excludes
himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to appropriate it.
(_b_) Find sentences with five verbs in the active and five in the
passive voice.
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