English needed. , much appreciated. : ) 1. identify the sentence with the active voice verb. a. have the lights been turned off in the theater yet? b. the stairs had been designed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. c. follow pecan way around the curve and through the gates. d. our winner will be chosen by the artists themselves. 2. identify the sentence with the passive voice verb. a. their apartment was small but very interesting. b. did you take that photograph with the digital camera? c. those old records may be worth a lot someday. d. i can't skate today because my skates are being repaired. 3. which of the following sentences contains a shift in tense. a. the sky was clear and blue, and suddenly it started raining. b. sure, it is easy to dye clothes if you knew how. c. reading biographies you understand how the world works. d. no, i don't think that tweed goes with stretch pants with ruffles. 4. choose the label that best describes the verb in the sentence. he has been waiting to hear from you for a while. a. present progressive. b. past perfect progressive. c. present perfect. d. present perfect progressive. 5. what choice correctly completes the sentence? the students _ several essays to practice for the big test. a. have wroten. b. writing. c. have written. d. have wrote.

Select the correct text in the passage. which sentence in this excerpt from abraham lincoln's second inaugural address conveys that he wanted the us civil war to end as soon as possible? neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. both read the same bible and pray to the same god, and each invokes his aid against the other. it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just inging their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. the prayers of both could not be answered. that of neither has been answered fully. the almighty has his own purposes. "woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh" if we shall suppose that american slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of god, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both north and south this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living god always ascribe to him? fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. yet, if god wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the lord are true and righteous altogether." reset next