• Write an email to the Finance Officer in PQR Company stating that there is a mismatch in prices and goods in purchase order and invoice. Seek clarification on what to do next.

Rewrite the following sentence in the passive voice.

(i) I have clarified my stand long back.

(ii) The terrorists are killing innocent people.

(iii) The invigilator did not allow the candidates to leave the examination hall early.

(iv) The vice chairman is going to preside over the meeting.

(v) Ten foreign delegates attended the conference.

My father was a CA.

The company made a profit of 20 crores in the last year.

 I am going to Lucknow in the summer holidays. (Begin with' Were

 Fill in the blanks in the following sentences choosing the appropriate verbs from the ones given in brackets.

(i) The number of visitors (were, was) much larger than expected.

(ii) If you (won, win) the lottery you would be a rich man.

(iii) Each of the laboratories (is, are) well equipped.

(iv) The poets and the dramatists (are, is) being honored.

(v) Ten miles (are, is) a long distance to cover on foot

Pick out the correct form of the verbs:

i. In the UK today, the number of women in work reached/has reached nearly 50% of the working population.

ii. In the 1950s and early 1960s, very few women went/have gone out to work.

iii. In those days, husbands often didn't let/haven't let their wives get jobs.

iv. Today the situation changed/has changed a lot.

v. In the 1970s, new laws made/have made employers offer women and men equal pay and conditions.

vi. Several changes in the present law gave/have given women today better conditions than before.

vii. However, women's average salaries at the moment didn't rise/haven't risen to average level of men's salaries.

viii. This is partly because the biggest increase in work for women in the last 20 years was/has been in part-time jobs.

ix. It is also because most of today's women didn't climb/haven't climbed to higher levels of management.

x. Most of the women didn't try/haven't tried to do so either.