The document provides 20 sentences written in the active voice and asks to change them to the passive voice. It covers a range of tenses, including the present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. The sentences describe various everyday actions and events like speaking a language, planning construction, telling a story, and studying a grammar topic.
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The document provides 20 sentences written in the active voice and asks to change them to the passive voice. It covers a range of tenses, including the present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. The sentences describe various everyday actions and events like speaking a language, planning construction, telling a story, and studying a grammar topic.
The document provides 20 sentences written in the active voice and asks to change them to the passive voice. It covers a range of tenses, including the present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. The sentences describe various everyday actions and events like speaking a language, planning construction, telling a story, and studying a grammar topic.
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The document provides 20 sentences written in the active voice and asks to change them to the passive voice. It covers a range of tenses, including the present, past, future, present perfect, past perfect, and future perfect. The sentences describe various everyday actions and events like speaking a language, planning construction, telling a story, and studying a grammar topic.
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The Passive: Mixed Tenses
Change these sentences from active to passive:
1. People speak Portuguese in Brazil. _______________________________________________________________ 2. The Government is planning a new road near my house. _______________________________________________________________ 3. My grandfather built this house in 1943. _______________________________________________________________ 4. Picasso was painting Guernica at that time. _______________________________________________________________ 5. The cleaner has cleaned the office. _______________________________________________________________ 6. He had written three books before 1867. _______________________________________________________________ 7. John will tell you later. _______________________________________________________________ 8. By this time tomorrow we will have signed the deal. _______________________________________________________________ 9. Somebody should do the work. _______________________________________________________________ 10. The traffic might have delayed Jimmy. _______________________________________________________________ 11. Everybody loves Mr Brown. _______________________________________________________________ 12. They are building a new stadium near the station. _______________________________________________________________ 13. The wolf ate the princess. _______________________________________________________________ 14. At six oclock someone was telling a story. _______________________________________________________________
15. Somebody has drunk all the milk!
_______________________________________________________________ 16. I had cleaned all the windows before the storm. _______________________________________________________________ 17. A workman will repair the computer tomorrow. _______________________________________________________________ 18. By next year the students will have studied the passive. _______________________________________________________________ 19. James might cook dinner. _______________________________________________________________ 20. Somebody must have taken my wallet. _______________________________________________________________