Fill in the blanks with the active or passive verb forms, as needed.
1. Reuters has changed a lot since those days. Over the past fifty years, we've opened offices in many different countries, and we are still expanding. Now, news and stock market prices are sent all over the world within seconds.
In the blanks, fill in with active or passive verb forms as appropriate.
Answer (3)
Can you clarify?
Future tense
are expanding are sending
To complete the sentences, 'still are expanding' should be used for an active structure, and 'are sent' should be used for a passive structure, reflecting the actions performed by the subject and on the subject, respectively.
You are working with a sentence that requires both active and passive verb structures. To complete the sentence correctly, we need to consider the context and whether the subject is performing an action or the action is being performed on the subject. Given the sentence: 'Over the past fifty years, we've opened offices in many different countries and we still are expanding. Now, news and stock market prices are sent all over the world within seconds.' Here, 'are expanding' is in the active voice, showing that the subject 'we' is performing the action of expanding. The phrase 'are sent' is in the passive voice, indicating that the action of sending is being done to 'news and stock market prices' without specifying the sender.
In the sentences, 'we still are expanding' uses an active verb form because 'we' is the doer of the action, while 'news and stock market prices are sent' uses a passive verb form since the action is done to them. Thus, we should fill the blanks with 'are expanding' for the first and 'are sent' for the second. This distinction highlights the difference between the subject performing the action and the subject receiving the action.
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