Answer:
Question 2:
1. Right now, all applications are being reviewed by the hiring manager.
2. I'm not sure who wrote this memo. I think it was written by my supervisor.
3. Three new programmers were hired last month.
4. Your company is new, right? When was it started?
5. Were you notified about the meeting yesterday?
Question 3:
1. Is that the man who (S) just started working at your office?
Explanation:
Question 2 asks for the use of the passive voice to complete each sentence. In the passive voice,<u> we use the auxiliary "to be" and the main verb in the past participle (example: gone, done, eaten, watched, walked, etc.).</u> To determine in which tense the passive voice must be used, we must pay attention to context clues. For instance, in sentence number 1, <u>"right now" indicates the present continuous tense</u>. In sentence number 3, "<u>last month" indicates the simple past tense</u>. So, we must adjust the passive voice accordingly.
Question 3 asks us to identify if the relative pronoun in the sentence is the subject of the object. A relative pronoun<u> is a word that substitutes a noun and introduces a relative clause</u>. In the sentence we are analyzing here, the relative pronoun<u> "who" substitutes "man" and introduces the clause "just started working at your office." Notice that "who" functions as the subject of the clause it introduces.</u> The verb "started" refers to the relative pronoun. Let's compare this sentence to another one where the relative pronoun is the object, so that we can see the difference:
- Is that the man who just started working at your office?
- Is that the man who you saw at the bar?
In the second sentence, "who" is the object. The verb "saw" refers to "you", which means "you" is the subject of the clause.
