Passive Verb Forms 7
Passive sentences with modals
Choose the appropriate form of the verb for each sentence.
I_____ at 555-203-4972.
- should reach
- should be reached
- can reach
- can be reached
The company _____ info@theirsite.com.
- might contact
- might be contacted
- can contact
- can be contacted
Cross-country skiing equipment _____ at many ski shops.
- can be rent
- can rent
- can be rented
- might be rent
Scientists are convinced that memory _____ even late in life.
- must improve
- must improved
- can be improve
- can be improved
Microsoft _____ to remove Media Player from Windows.
- may be forced
- may be force
- might force
- might forced
Letters to the editor _____ for brevity and clarity.
- may be edited
- may be edit
- should be edit
- should edited
Alzheimer's disease _____ to homocysteine, a normal diet byproduct.
- can linked
- may be linked
- can to be linked
- should be linked
The researchers said the anomaly _____ in two different ways.
- could explain
- could to be explained
- could be explained
- could explained
This is part of a boom in memory training, or what _____ mental aerobics.
- could be called
- could be call
- must to be called
- must called
The doctor said the patch _____ no more than once a day.
- could apply
- could be applied
- could to be applied
- could be apply
Printing systems are becoming so small that scientists believe that tiny electronic circuits of _____ by special inkjets.
- could to be printed
- could print
- could be print
- could be printed
A government spokesperson said today that certain popular nutritional supplements _____ later this year.
- might be banned
- might being banned
- might to be banned
- might be ban
Some people _____ to defeat the copy protection scheme.
- should be tempted
- should be tempt
- might be tempted
- might tempt
The company, which has been in negotiations with the union for over a month, said something _____ soon.
- might be work out
- might be worked out
- might being work out
- might being worked out
What percentage of your portfolio _____ to bonds?
- should be allocated
- should allocate
- should be allocate
- should to be allocated
Educators in the United States disagree over the age at which kids _____ to computers.
- should be introduce
- should to be introduced
- should introduce
- should be introduced
Mussels _____ in a pan with holes so they can drip.
- should be stored
- should store
- should be store
- should being stored
He said that evil is real and _____.
- must to be opposed
- must opposed
- must be opposed
- must be oppose
The blood tests _____ at an approved laboratory.
- must perform
- must be perform
- must be performed
- must to be performed
An Ethernet adapter _____ separately for PlayStation 2.
- must be purchased
- must purchased
- must being purchased
- must to be purchased