GRAMMAR Point. 2.1. Identify the Passive voice forms in every sentence

(speaking-reading)

2.1. Identify the Passive voice forms in every sentence. Analyze them:

1. Harvesters are widely used in agriculture.

2. Harvesting of cereal crops has been fully mechanized.

3. 3 How can soils be subdivided in accordance with texture and age?

4. Much attention is paid to the problems of unifying standard structure designs and standard details in irrigation.

5. Irrigation projects will be operated from a central office including the river structures for both flood control and for water supply needs.

2.2. Use the following verbs in the forms of Passive voice:

Indefinite tenses: to cause, to determine

Continuous tenses: to apply, to grow

Perfect tenses: to receive, tofertilize

2.3.Translate the following word combinations into English with the help of Passive voice forms. Pay attention to the tense and person of the verb:

Питання розглядаються, увага привертається, гербіциди мають бути розміщені, потрібен дощ, гербіциди мають бути застосовані, невдача була спричинена, як вже було сказано, буде зроблено.

2.4. Ask questions to the sentences:

1. Rye is grown on vast areas in the Crimea

2. The feeding stuffs commonly used on farms can be divided into two main groups.

3. Important selection work is being carried out with dwarf rice in Nigeria, Guinea, Niger and Mali.

4. In Sri Lanka and Malaysia preference is given to improved local varieties of rice.

5. Deep sandy soils are better adapted to rye and some other crops.

2.5. Transform the sentences from Passive into Active voice:

1. The yield of wheat is greatly affected by the amount of moisture in the soil at the time the crop is seeded.

2. If the grain is stored at a high moisture content, it can be damaged by heat.

3. Under the minimum tillage system the plow and the planter are used by the tractor at the same time.

4. Triticale is classified now as a feed grain.

5. Weed control with chemicals is affected by selection, application and environment.

2.6.Transform the sentences from Active into Passive voice:

1. The type of soil also affects herbicide selection.

2. Growers should carefully prepare the machines for the application of the herbicides.

3. Too high rates of chemicals can cause the injury of the growing crop.

4. Strong winds may cause uneven herbicide spraying.

5. Crop rotation controls many weeds.

2.7. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian. Pay attention to the Passive voice tense forms:

1. Fall plowing as soon after harvest as possible is generally recommended for both winter and spring wheat varieties.

2. Seeding was done with one-row hand-operated seeder.

3. The scientists believe that new high-quality protein corn will be commercially produced throughout the world within this decade.

4. Under the minimum tillage system the land has been prepared for planting and planted in two operations.

5. Much of commercial production of triticale is being done on

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