I.  Tell which of the following verbs are in the active voice, and which in the passive.

1. The moon gives a pleasant light.
2. The book was written by my father.
3. The song of the bird is heard in the grove.
4. How doth the little busy bee improve each shining hour!
5. Knowledge gives power.
6. The heavens declare the glory of God.

II. In the above sentences, change the verbs in the active voice into the passive, and the verbs in the passive voice into the active.

III. Write five sentences containing regular, and five containing irregular verbs in the passive voice using the following model:

                     For regular passive, one sentence might be: 
                                      King Charles was beheaded.    
                     For irregular passive, one sentence might be:              
                                      An article about the war was written.

IV. Find the verbs in the following examples. Tell whether they are regular or irregular, transitive or intransitive, of the active or the passive voice.

1. The thunders of heaven are sometimes heard to roll in the voice of a united people.
2. In the battle of Solferino, four hundred thousand men are said to have been engaged.
3. I care not what mines are opened In the mountains of Siberia, or in the sierras of California; wheresoever the fountains of the golden tide may gush forth, the streams will flow to the regions where educated intellect has woven the boundless network of the useful and ornamental arts.
   Everett
4. ‘Tis finished.—Their thunders are hushed on the moors;
   Culloden is lost, and my country deplores:
   But where is the iron-bound prisoner?    Where?
   For the red eye of battle is shut in despair.
   Campbell