The Passive Voice (continuous tenses)

1. Make the following sentences interrogative and negative: Example: The new Prime Minister will be appointed tomorrow. The candidate is being discussed now. – Is the candidate being discussed now? No, the candidate is not being discussed now.

1. They were being questioned for half an hour in the morning. 2. Somebody is walking behind us. I think we are being followed! 3. The victim is being examined now. 4. An agreement is being worked out. 5. A new building is being built. 6. An expert examination is being made.

2. Write passive sentences:

Example: The police are making inquires now. – Inquires are being made by the police now.

1. The judge is announcing the sentence. 2. The investigator was examining clothes when the expert arrived. 3. The police are searching for a burglar. 4. The Parliament is passing the law. 5. The committee is discussing the matter. 6. The experts are studying the fingerprints

3. Open the brackets using the appropriate form of the verb (Present/ Past Continuous): Example: He (to be questioned) at the moment I came in. – He was being questioned at the moment I came in.

1. Look at that strange man! We (to be followed). 2. The new Tax bill (to be discussed) all day yesterday. 3. I didn’t notice anything, but when I got a cassette I realized everything. Our conversation (to be recorded). 4. Don’t come in! The identi-kit of the maniac-murderer (to be created). 5. The decision of the Constitutional Court (to be discussed) and we heard loud voices. 6. The plan of future changes in the system of courts (to be discussed) in the afternoon.

4. Translate the following sentences into English:

1. Зараз відбувається експертиза відбитків пальців. 2. Справу зараз слухають у суді. 3. Вашу інформацію щодо винності депутата зараз перевіряють. 4. Підозрюваного зараз допитують. 5. Будинок учора обшукували цілий день, але нічого не знайшли. 6. Зараз проводиться засідання Верховної Ради. 7. Зараз розробляють порядок денний засідання Кабінету Міністрів. 8. Зараз беруть інтерв’ю у Прем’єр-міністра України. 9. Чому їх арештовують? Вони невинні.