Grammar Revision:The Passive Voice

Grammar Revision: The Passive Voice

Put the verb in brackets into the correct passive tense.

1. Before the Normans conquered England different areas of the country (govern) by different systems of law which often (adapt) from those of various invaders who had settled there; roughly speaking, Dane law (apply) in the north, Mercian law around the midlands, and Wessex law in the south and west.

2. Each law (base) largely on local customs and these customs varied from place to place.

3. Representatives of the king (send) out to the countryside to check local administration and (give) the job of adjudicating in local disputes, according to local law.

4. By about 1250 a common law (produce) that ruled the whole country and could (use) to predict what the courts might decide in a particular case.

5. The principles behind this common law still (use) today in creating case law which in fact often (know) as common law.

6. Case law comes from the decisions that (make) by judges in the cases before them, but case law (not, make) up with the decisions of juries.

7. The idea is that once a decision (make) on how the law applies to a particular set of facts, similar facts in later cases (treat) in the same way.

8. The judges listen to the evidence and the legal argument and then a written decision (prepare).