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PASSIVE VOICE
EXERCISES
A. PRESENT SIMPLE (to be + 3rd form of the verb)
I. Rewrite the sentences, putting the verbs in the passive:
Model: They take the cars abroad
The cars are taken abroad.
1. We clean the garages every day.
The garages
2. We check every car engine very carefully.
Every car engine
3. We export this computer to 70 different countries.
This computer
4. They send 2 million books to America every year.
2 million books..
5. The machine wraps the bread automatically.
The bread.
II. Rewrite the sentences, putting the verbs in the passive:
1. We send the newspapers to Scotland by train.
2. Someone checks the water level every day.
3. He watches the palace 24 hours a day.
4. Millions of people watch this programme.
5. Students write most of this magazine.
III. Rewrite the sentences, putting the verbs in the passive:
Model: This computer / make / in the USA.
This computer is made in the USA.
1. The machines / make /in Scotland.
2. The money / change into dollars / at the bank.
3. Cheese / make / from milk.
4. The house / paint / every year.
5. Hundreds of houses / build / every year.
B. PAST SIMPLE (was / were + 3rd form of the verb)

I. Rewrite the sentences, putting the verbs in the passive:
Model: They took the cars abroad.
The cars were taken abroad.
1. The police arrested 200 people.
200 people
2. We opened the factory at 9 oclock.
The factory..
3. They posted all the letters yesterday.
All the letters
4. They paid a lot of money to do the job.
A lot of money
5. Fortunately, they didnt damage the machinery.
Fortunately, the machinery..
II. Rewrite the sentences, putting the verbs in the passive:
1. The police questioned George.
2. A burglar stole my television.
3. United won the cup last year.
4. They ate all the food at the party.
5. Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928.
III. Rewrite the sentences, putting the verbs in the passive:

Model: My car / damage / last night.
My car was damaged last night.
1. The President / kill / last night.
2. The parcel / post / yesterday.
3. The children / give / some food.
4. Several people / hurt / in the accident last night.
5. The meal / serve / by a waiter in a red coat.
Iv. Choose the most suitable tense:

Mickey Mouse (1) is born/was born on Walt Disneys sketchpad in March 1928.
The first cartoon, Plane Crazy, (2) was premiered/premiered two month later on Sunset
Boulevard. It was on November 1928 that Mickey Mouse (3) has officially born/was
officially born. He (4) is featured/was featured/had been featured in Steamboat Willie, a
film that (5) had been screened/is being screened/was screened at the Colony Theatre in
New York and (6) was first animated/had been first animated/will be first animated movie
to use syncronised sound. Minnie Mouse, Mickeys girlfriend, (7) was also featured/will
be also featured/is being also featured. The now familiar falsetto voice of Mickey (8) has
been provided/is provided/was provided by Walt Disney himself.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs nearly bankrupted the company and (9) will be
finally/was finally released/is finally released in December 1937.
V.Turn the following sentences into passive:

1) They speak French at this shop.
2) Somebody stole my car.
3) They have sent the books to the wrong address.
4) Somebody will bring the beer.
5) Somebody has bought this fur coat.
6) Somebody has left this umbrella behind.
7) They haven't caught the robbers yet.
8) They don't drink ice-cold beer in England.
9) They eat a lot of fish.
10) They drink tea with milk at least five times a day.
11) They discuss the weather every day.
12) Some men robbed the Glasgow-London mail train in 1961.
13) They stopped the train between two stations.
14) They disconnected the engine and the first two coaches.
15) They drove them to a lonely bridge.
16) People discussed the mail robbery all over the world.
17) The police caught some of the robbers and found part of the money.
18) The court sentenced the men in January 1964.
19) Somebody will look after their children.
20) You have not paid for the car.
21) When will the police look into this matter?
22.Buses take the commuters home each evening.
23.They put the saddles on their horses and went for a ride.
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24.Parents dont make their children work very hard at home nowadays.
25.You can admire the beautiful scenery from our house.
26.He will send his car abroad.
27.Smoke filled the dinning-room.
28.The headmaster has sent the students to the library.
VI.
Make this sentences negative.
1. Football is played in winter.

2. The paper is being written carefully.
3. This bicycle was made in China.
4. David and his friend have been invited to work in the company.
5. These rooms will be cleaned next week.
6. The drunken driver was stopped by the police at the traffic-lights.
7. Susan has been sent to bed by a physicist as she was ill.
8. A French chef has been hired at the restaurant.
9. Oranges are sold at the chemists.
10. He was given some medicine by the doctor.

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B. PAST SIMPLE (was / were + 3rd form of the verb)

III. Rewrite the sentences, putting the verbs in the passive:

Iv. Choose the most suitable tense:

V.Turn the following sentences into passive:

Make this sentences negative.

1. Football is played in winter.

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