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title: Active and passive voice, modal verbs — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · English
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 32 «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» of the English course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Active and passive voice, modal verbs

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The 15 questions of lesson 32 «Active and passive voice, modal verbs» of the English course of Mova's primary school with their options, 86 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t1/) — Your mate goes "passive is lazy, teachers hate it, no cap." ("No cap" means for real.) What is true? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t2/) — ★★★ "The cake was eaten." How many people could have eaten it, from the sentence alone? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t3/) — ★★★ Turn into the active: "The trophy was won by our class." — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t4/) — In a cartoon, a villain says "The bank has been robbed... by someone!" Why is it funny? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t5/) — What would happen if Mum turned "You must go to bed" into "You might go to bed"? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t6/) — Gen Alpha cousin: "lowkey the window got smashed, it wasn't me fr." ("fr" means for real, "lowkey" means a bit secretly.) What is the formal passive? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t7/) — A gran in Cornwall: "Ee could've 'elped, my lover." ("My lover" is a friendly word there.) What does "could have helped" suggest? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t8/) — ★★★ Which change does NOT keep the same tense? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t9/) — Ellie in Texas: "Y'all should've told me!" ("Y'all" means you all.) Which modal is she using? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t10/) — Which sentence is the strongest order? — wrong ✗ · ★★
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/t11/) — Formal letter from the council: "Bins shall be put out on Tuesday." What does "shall" do here? — right ✓ · ★★
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/e1/) — Identify the sentence composed in the passive voice. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/e2/) — Ascertain the passive form, in the identical tense, of the sentence "The dog ate the cake". — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/e3/) — Which of the following most accurately characterises the principal reason for the use of the passive in scientific reports? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/english/32-active-and-passive-voice-modal-verbs/e4/) — Select the modal verb expressing the lowest degree of certainty. — wrong ✗ · exam

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