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Passive, reported speech, causative and spotting errors

45 marks. Use Practice to check each answer as you go, or Exam to answer everything first. Section A has 10 multiple-choice questions; Section B has error correction in the UASA Paper 1 Part 2 style, rewriting sentences and choosing the correct form. Ask a parent or teacher to help you mark the written answers in Section B.

Section A: multiple choice

10 marks
Choose the best answer, A, B or C.
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Question 1

Notice
The school hall ______ for the exam at the moment. Please wait outside.
Choose the words for the gap.
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A
The hall receives the action and it is happening now, so the present continuous passive: is being + past participle. Is cleaning is active and does not fit a hall.
For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard Passive voice: present continuous
Textbook p. 113
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Question 2

The fence was painted ______ a wide brush.
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B
With shows the tool or material. By would introduce the person who did the painting.
For the teacher: Remembering, low difficulty, standard Passive voice: by and with
Textbook p. 170
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Question 3

Instructions
All phones should ______ off during the test.
Choose the words for the gap.
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C
After a modal verb we use the bare infinitive passive: be + past participle (should be turned).
For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard Passive after a modal
Textbook p. 170
4

Question 4

"We will visit the museum tomorrow," the teacher said.
The teacher said that they ______ the museum the next day.
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B
Will becomes would in reported speech after a past reporting verb. Tomorrow became the next day.
For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard Reported statements: backshift and time words
Textbook p. 125
5

Question 5

"Where do you live?" Mina asked Tom.
Mina asked Tom where ______.
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A
A reported question uses statement word order and no do / does / did. The tense moves back one step: he lived.
For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard Reported questions
Textbook p. 129
6

Question 6

"Don't touch the wires!" the electrician told us.
The electrician told us ______ the wires.
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C
A reported command is told + person + (not) to + base verb: told us not to touch.
For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard Reported commands
Textbook p. 171
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Question 7

Ravi's laptop stopped working, so he ______ at a shop.
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B
A shop worker did the repair for him: causative have + object + past participle (had it repaired). Repaired it means Ravi did it himself.
For the teacher: Understanding, medium difficulty, standard Causative
Textbook p. 139
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Question 8

Aina saw her old friend in the street. She stopped ______ to her for a minute.
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A
Stop + to + verb gives the purpose of stopping (she stopped walking in order to talk). Stop talking would mean she no longer talked. Stop talk is not a pattern.
For the teacher: Analysing, high difficulty, standard Gerund or infinitive: meaning change
Textbook p. 172
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Question 9

Your sister doesn't eat prawns, ______?
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C
A negative statement takes a positive tag, and the verb is do / does (present simple): does she?
For the teacher: Remembering, low difficulty, standard Question tags
Textbook p. 168
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Question 10

Poster
The concert tickets will ______ fast, so please buy yours early.
Choose the words for the gap.
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B
Sell out means that all the tickets are bought. Turn up means increase the volume; give up means stop trying.
For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard Phrasal verbs: sell out
Textbook p. 186

Section B: structured questions

35 marks
Answer all questions. Choose the answer or write it in the space.
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Question 11

Rewrite each sentence in the passive voice. Mention the agent only where it is needed.
[1 mark] (a)Mrs Lim teaches the Form 3 class.
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[1 mark] (b)The students are planting trees.
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[1 mark] (c)Someone has taken my bag.
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[1 mark] (d)The council will build a new park.
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[1 mark] (e)They cut the cake with a sharp knife.
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For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard Passive voice: tenses, by and with
Textbook p. 113
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Question 12

Report each sentence. Begin with the words given.
[1 mark] (a)"I am tired," Amir said. Amir said ...
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[1 mark] (b)"We visited the zoo yesterday," the pupils told Cikgu Salmah. The pupils told Cikgu Salmah ...
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[1 mark] (c)"What time does the film start?" Siti asked. Siti asked ...
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[1 mark] (d)"Please close the window," Mum said to me. Mum asked me ...
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[1 mark] (e)"Don't run in the corridor," the prefect told us. The prefect told us ...
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For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard Reported speech: statements, questions, commands and requests
Textbook p. 125
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Question 13

Read the text below and correct the underlined errors. For each question, write the correct word in the space.
A trip to the National Science Centre
Last Thursday, Form 3 Cempaka (0) go on a school trip to the National Science Centre. The pupils (9) was told to bring a notebook and a pen. Cikgu Hanif said that we (10) can ask questions at the end of each show. One girl asked the guide (11) that the robot could talk. The tickets were checked (12) with a guard at the gate. Afterwards we had our photo (13) take in front of the big dome. Everyone enjoyed (14) to see the planetarium show. At lunch, the cafe had run (15) on of drinks, so we shared one bottle. It was a great trip, (16) was it?
Example: (0) went
[1 mark] (9)
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Passive past with a plural subject (pupils): were told.
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[1 mark] (10)
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Reported speech after said (past): can becomes could.
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[1 mark] (11)
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A reported yes / no question uses if or whether, not that.
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[1 mark] (12)
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The guard is the agent (the person who did it), so by. With is for a tool or material.
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[1 mark] (13)
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Causative: had + object + past participle (taken).
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[1 mark] (14)
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Enjoy is followed by a gerund: enjoyed seeing.
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[1 mark] (15)
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Phrasal verb: run out of = have no more left.
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[1 mark] (16)
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A positive statement takes a negative tag: it was ..., wasn't it?
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For the teacher: Applying, medium difficulty, standard Paper 1 Part 2 skill: error correction (passive, reported speech, causative, gerund, phrasal verb, tag)
Textbook p. 118
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Question 14

Choose the correct answer.
[1 mark] (a)Remember ______ the lights before you leave the room.
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to turn off
Remember + to + verb = do not forget to do it.
[1 mark] (b)He regrets ______ the last bus, so he had to walk home.
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missing
Regret + gerund = wish you had not done something that happened.
[1 mark] (c)We had the carpet ______ last week.
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cleaned
Causative: have + object + past participle.
[1 mark] (d)The sports hall has to ______ before Friday.
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be decorated
After has to (a modal-like verb) we use the bare infinitive passive: be + participle.
For the teacher: Understanding, low difficulty, standard Gerund or infinitive; causative; passive with modal
Textbook p. 143
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Question 15

Choose the correct question tag.
[1 mark] (a)You have finished your homework, ______?
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haven't you
Positive statement → negative tag with the same auxiliary (have).
[1 mark] (b)Nobody called me, ______?
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did they
Nobody is a negative word, so the tag is positive; we use they for nobody.
[1 mark] (c)Let's go to the beach, ______?
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shall we
Let's takes the tag shall we.
[1 mark] (d)I'm right, ______?
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aren't I
The tag for I am is aren't I.
For the teacher: Applying, low difficulty, standard Question tags
Textbook p. 168
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Question 16

Choose the correct word.
[1 mark] (a)You can rely ______ me. I will not forget.
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on
Rely on (textbook p.185).
[1 mark] (b)She is very good ______ solving puzzles.
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at
Good at (textbook p.185).
[1 mark] (c)Please ______ out the worksheets to everyone in the group.
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give
Give out = distribute (textbook p.186).
For the teacher: Remembering, low difficulty, standard Prepositions and phrasal verbs
Textbook p. 185
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Question 17

Last month the teacher said to the class, "I will give you the test tomorrow." Today Aiman reported it in his diary: "The teacher told us that she will give the test tomorrow."
[2 marks] (a)There are two mistakes in the sentence. Name them and explain each one.
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Will must become would because told is past, and tomorrow must become the next day because we are reporting it later.
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[1 mark] (b)Write the sentence correctly.
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For the teacher: Evaluating, high difficulty, standard Reported speech: spotting and explaining an error
Textbook p. 125
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Question 18

Write one sentence for each instruction. Write about school or home.
[1 mark] (a)A sentence in the passive voice.
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[1 mark] (b)A sentence with the causative (have something done).
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[1 mark] (c)A sentence in reported speech, beginning "My teacher said that ...".
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For the teacher: Creating, low difficulty, standard Passive, causative and reported speech in your own writing
Textbook p. 139