EXERCISE: Active or passive

1. Twenty of the 92 singers who applied [select, simple past] for the opera.

2. I had no idea that people so young [train, simple past] to kill and die on command in these countries.

3. The exhibition [divide, simple present] into two parts : five large wooden sculptures in the garden and a group of smaller sculptures near the park entrance.

4. The Tournai-Solvay park is not an ideal setting for the sculptures. Perhaps the nearby Forêt de Soignes would [be, perfect infinitive] a more convincing choice.

5. The first Belgian-owned circus [found, simple past] by François Erasmus of Ghent.

6. After six years of uncertainty about its fate, the Radio Building [buy, present perfect] by Maison de la Radio Flagey, a company whose shareholders include Belgacom, the BBL and Société Générale de Belgique.

7. The building [convert, future simple] into offices and rehearsal rooms as well as stage sets and costume studios.

8. The guest book [sign, past perfect] by just one person the day before.

9. The actors [appear, simple present] uneasy in the no-man’s-land between illusion and reality.

10. The new management hopes that planning permission [grant, future simple].


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Analyse : Jean Schumacher   Réalisation informatique : Boris Maroutaeff
Dernière mise à jour : 12/09/2001