ACTIVE, PASSIVE OR CAUSATIVE?

 

Complete the passages with the correct form of the verbs in brackets. Use the active, passive and causative forms.

      A. Katie ^1. …………………… (know) how to get people to do things. She ^2. …………………… (elect) head of the annual party committee last month. She ^3. …………………… the entertainment …………………… (arrange) by Tom because he ^4. …………………… (manage) several bands in the past. She ^5. ………………… (convince) an expensive restaurant to give us a discount.
Later on today, her assistant ^6. …………………… (call) everyone to remind them of the party.
Her assistant ^7. …………………… (do) this during her lunch break. No one ^8. …………………… (refuse) Katie’s requests.

      B. Mr Jones ^9. …………………… (collect) records since he ^10. …………………… (hear) the Beatles as a teenager. His favourite records ^11. …………………… (find) at second-hand shops or car boot sales. More recently, he ^12. …………………… (ask) his children to search for bargains on Internet sites. They ^13. …………………… (not mind) doing this because they ^14. …………………… (pay) by their father for each record. Mrs Jones ^15. …………………… (often complain) about this hobby in the past before they ^16. …………………… (move) to a bigger house two years ago. Mr Jones ^17. …………………… shelves …………………… (build) in the attic and his enormous record collection ^18. …………………… (keep) there now.

 

KEY

     1. knows

    2. was elected

    3. had / got … arranged

    4. had managed

    5. convinced

    6. is going to call / is calling

    7. is going to do / is doing

    8. refuses

    9. has collected / has been collecting

10.  heard

11.  are found / can be found

12.  has asked

13.  don’t mind

14.  are paid

15.  had often complained

16.  moved

17.  had … built

18.  is kept