FRESHMAN COMPOSITION, RHETORIC, GRAMMAR II

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INTRO. TO LITERARY RESEARCH & WRITING

INSTRUCTOR: James Maxfield

English 1010

Exercise #7

Instructions: After reviewing the sections in your Handbook (205-07, 307-8, 291-15c), complete the following by identifying and converting all passive verbs to active and all active verbs to passive.

Examples:

Active: Later Kings of England made additions to the castle.

Changed to passive: Additions to the castle were made by later Kings of England.

Passive: Clams are considered a delicacy by many people.

Changed to Active: Many people consider clams a delicacy.

(Sentences taken from Shakespeare’s Unorthodox Biography by Diana Price.)

--By 1598, Shakespeare had presumably written about seventeen plays, of which [Francis] Meres named twelve.

--Many years after Shak[e]spere’s death, [Ben] Jonson wrote a piece, Timber, or Discoveries, in which he advised students to "read the best authors" first.

--In fact, Jonson did not write once about Shakespeare during the Stratford man’s lifetime, and his silence is particularly deafening.

--Just as the Secret Service and the press corps did not broadcast the facts about Kennedy or Roosevelt, Shakespeare’s professional colleagues did not write explicitly about a gentleman dramatist in their midst.

--Some of Henslowe’s playhouse inventories were examined by early scholars but are no longer extant.

--Like many 18^th and 19^th century scholars, Collier took possession of numerous historical documents.

--No biography can account for [Shakespear’s] education.

--The best that can be inferred is that if Shakspere wrote the plays, then he must have attended the Stratford grammar school.

--In the absence of any concrete evidence supporting Shakspere’s schooling, some authorities have embraced the theory of education by osmosis.

--Many critics sidestep Shakespeare’s evident command of languages not taught at the grammar school.

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