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NAME:

DATE:

Extra Grammar Exercises


(Unit 9)

LESSON 1

A. Rewrite each prediction about the future in the passive voice.


1. Advances in technology will make everyone’s lives easier.


2. Robots will do household chores in most people’s homes.




3. Astronauts will establish human communities on the planet Mars.




4. Agricultural companies will grow crops in urban skyscrapers.




5. Car manufacturers will build vehicles that can’t have accidents.




B. Read each quote from the past. Complete each statement with the passive voice
about the future as seen from the past, using would.
1. “We will smell what we see on TV.”
Nicholas Negroponte, director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab (1990s)

In the 1990s, Negroponte predicted that what we saw on TV


as well as seen.
2. “People are going to reject talking movies!”
H.M. Warner, CEO Warner Brothers Movie Picture (the late 1920s)

In the late 1920s, Warner thought that talking movies by


most people.
3. “People will send messages instantly across the oceans.”
John Elfreth Watkins, U.S. civil engineer (1900)

In 1900, Watkins suggested that messages across the oceans.


4. “The well-dressed man of the future will usually wear shorts to most events.”
John David, salesperson (1927)

In 1927, David believed that shorts by the well-dressed


man of the future.
5. “In the future, they will build noiseless cities.”
Sir Henry Blake, U.K. government official (circa 1914)

In around 1914, Blake predicted that, in the future, noiseless cities .

Summit 2, Third Edition Unit 9


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C. Complete each future prediction with the future perfect in the passive voice.

1. By the end of the 21st century, cures for most diseases


(discover).

2. By 2050, a habitat (establish) on the moon.

3. In a few decades, the technology we’re accustomed to today


(replace).

4. In ten years, today’s devices (design) to do a lot more than


they can today.

5. In the next century, new methods of high-speed transport


(develop) to move people and goods over long distances.

Summit 2, Third Edition Unit 9


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NAME: DATE:

LESSON 2

A. Choose the correct way to complete each statement.


1. If effective cures for cancer and heart disease (are discovered / were discovered),
millions of lives (would be saved / would have been saved).
2. If the smartphone (weren’t invented / hadn’t been invented), social media would never
have been as popular as it is now.
3. If petroleum (weren’t used / hadn’t been used) as the world’s primary energy source, the
world’s economies (will be changed / would be changed).
4. The iPhone (might never have been invented / will never have been invented) if Steve
Jobs hadn’t returned to serve as CEO of Apple.
5. If the majority of surgeries (were performed / had been performed) by robots, remote
surgeries (will be more accepted / would be more accepted).

B. Complete each statement with the unreal conditional in the passive voice.
1. If the polio virus (not / discover) when it was, the
vaccine (not develop) and many more people
(get) polio.
2. If acts of terrorism (not / report) so frequently on the news,
tourism would be growing even more rapidly worldwide.
3. If charity organizations (support) by more people, a lot of
good could be done.
4. Computer chip implants (use) for bad purposes if they
(implant) in everyone.
5. If the work on nanotechnology and genetic engineering
(stop) years ago, there would be less hope for finding cures for many of today’s diseases.

Summit 2, Third Edition Unit 9


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