The Passive With Get

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Learners needn't get tense studying tenses. The explanations and exercises in this packet will provide lots of practice with the passive.

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Active or passive? Young grammarians identify the voice in a series of sentences and then rewrite those in passive voice.

In this past participle activity, students fill in the 10 blanks with the past participial form of the verbs listed. Using the tense provided in parenthesis students also write their own sentences using the passive with get.

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