Exercise on Passive Voice - Past Perfect Rewrite the sentences in passive voice.

1. I had worn blue shoes. - Blue shoes had been worn by me.

2. Blue shoes had been worn by me-



3. Joe had cleaned the tables. -



4. We had lost the key. –



5. They had started a fight. –



6. I had been reading an article. –



7. I had not closed the window. –



8. They had not bought the paper. –



9. She had not noticed me. –



10. Had she solved the problem? –

The major was a little man with upturned mustaches. he had been in the war in libya and wore two wound-stripes. he said that if the thing went well he would see that i was decorated. i said i hoped it would go well but that he was too kind. i asked him if there was a big dugout where the drivers could stay and he sent a soldier to show me. i went with him and found the dugout, which was very good. the drivers were with it and i left them there. what effect does hemingway’s limited use of adjectives have? it slows down the narration by interrupting the action. it makes the few descriptive words he does use more vivid and forceful. it makes the narrator seem powerless and insincere. it prevents the readers from filling in the details with their own experiences.