If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been
a parent. Bette Davis
If your child has never hated you, you have never been a
parent.
S-4d Active and Passive Voice
Rewrite each of the following quotations by changing at least
one verb from the ACTIVE VOICE
to the PASSIVE VOICE, or vice versa. Be prepared to explain
whether the original or your
revision sounds better—and why. Answers to even-numbered items
can be found at the
back of the book.
EXAMPLE
—
1. The most ferocious animals are disarmed by their young. —
Victor Hugo
2. If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever
else you do well matters very
much. — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
3. Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. —
Margaret Mead
4. Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the
world is done by children.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
5. My children weary me. I can only see them as defective
adults. — Evelyn Waugh
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