Grammar Exercise 1
Passive Voice

Directions: Change the active voice to a passive voice

1. Capsaicin can block pain.


2. Professor Sorensen is measuring an acid.


3. Chemists obtained significant improvement in the performance of PR polymers.


4. Scientists developed new models for polymers with a glass transition temperature near room temperature.


5. The students blew up the science lab.


6. The President made mistakes.


7. ORN supported this work.


8. Scientists will fabricate new materials and devices with even further improved capabilities.


9. Richard A. Meyer of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and his colleagues injected a capsaicin analog under the skin of one inner forearm of each of eight volunteers.


10. The students in this class will write four article reviews.