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Task 5: Find the Passive Voice in the text.  

Point out Non-finite forms of the verbs: Participles, Gerunds and 

Infinitives.  

Fill in each blank with the Infinitives, Gerunds or Participles. Put in 

words from the box: to return, sent, made, packing, keep, reduced, 

sending, to return, sating, to sent, to use. 

We are ______ you a new lot by air this week, and would ask you & 

________the faulty clothes at your convenience, carriage forward. Alter-

natively you may ________ this lot for sale as seconds at a _______ price. 

You are perfectly correct in _______ that ______ and insurance costs are 

normally less for cargo _______ by air was _______ at very short notice. 

It was not possible for us ________ the lighter air freight ________  mate-

rials, as most of the dresses were ready for shipment by sea freight (please 

see our letter of 9

th

 November).