I. Add an object and change the following transitive verbs from the active to the passive voice in the following manner:
 Mary loved.
becomes
Mary loved the truth.
becomes
The truth was loved by Mary.

1. They read.
2. Henry lost.
3. The children played.
4. Augustus threw.
5. Anna found.
6. He rowed.
7. Hear.
8. The father punished.
9. Drive.
10. Will you lend?
11. Jane broke.

II. Change the following transitive verbs from the passive to the active form and supply a subject when it is omitted as in the following example:
America was discovered in 1492.
becomes
Christopher Columbus discovered  America in 1492.

1. Religious liberty was established in Rhode Island.
2. Magna Carta was granted to the English.
3. The Mexican army was defeated at Buena Vista.
4. The king was concealed in the tree.
5. The retreat of the Greeks was conducted very skillfully.
6. A great battle was fought at Marathon.
7. The Gunpowder Plot was discovered.
8. King Charles was restored to the throne in 1660.
9. Paradise Lost was written by Milton.
10. The Messiah was written by a distinguished poet.

III.   As you work through this exercise, use the informatiion on the Advanced Parsing Model for Verbs page. Parse the verbs the nouns and the adjectives the in the following examples. As you work through this exercise, use the informatiion on the Advanced Parsing Model for Verbs page.

1. In August, even, not a breeze can stir but it thrills us with the breath of autumn. A pensive glory is seen in the far  golden gleams among the shadows of the trees.
   Hawthorne
2. Reproach did not spare Braddock even in his grave. Still his dauntless conduct on the field of battle shows him to have been a man of fearless spirit; and he was universally allowed to be an accomplished disciplinarian. Whatever may have been his faults and errors he expiated them by the hardest lot that can befall a brave soldier ambitious of renown — an unhonored grave in a strange land a memory clouded by misfortune and a name forever coupled with defeat.
   Irving
3. Now by the skies above us and by our fathers’ graves, be men today or be forever slaves!
   Macaulay
4. Whatever changes be rung upon bells they ought to be chimes.
   Willmott
5. The game is done! I’ve won, I’ve won!
   Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
   Coleridge