Passive Voice Identification Drill

1. Circle or highlight all the forms of the verb to be.

2. Check your answers against Version 2.

3. Underline the passive verbs—the to be form + the past participle.

(Ok to underline adverb or some other word that comes between.)

4. Check your answers against Version 3.

I am writing to you in response to your request that I come up with some

kind of an explanation of why the central region is doing so poorly sales-wise.

This has nothing to do with her being a woman. Women are believed by

most thinking people nowadays to have the same career capabilities as men

and should be so treated.

It would seem however that Linda does not have the capability to deal with

the pressure cooker type situation that she has found herself in. This is

unfortunate because it was unforeseen.

It was not known that the central region's economy would go into a tailspin

this year. And it was not known that Imperial Auto Parts would develop a ruthless

price war in the region that has virtually killed any distributor's desire to buy

our products.

I will be removing Linda from her position as regional manager and replacing

her with Corey Ander, our western regional sales manager who I hope will be

able to get things under control. His region has done pretty well in the past.

Sorry about this, but it is really due to circumstances out of our control. I only

found out about these problems when you did because Miss Cassavetes

didn't do a very good job of keeping me up to date with what was happening

out there.