Passive Voice Active to passive

Exercise 1: Put the following into the passive voice. The agent should not be mentioned where it is not necessary. 1. You should open the wine about three hours before you use it. 2. Previous climbers had cut steps in the ice. 3. Somebody had cleaned my shoes and brushed my suit. 4. We use this room only on special occasions. 5. You must not hammer nails into the walls without permission. 6. In some districts farmers use pigs to find truffles. 7. Someone switched on a light and opened the door. 8. Somebody had slashed the picture with a knife. 9. They are pulling down the old theatre. 10. Why didn't they mend the roof before it fell in? 11. The mob broke all the shop windows in recent riots. 12. The librarian said that they were starting a new system because people were not returning books. 13. The police asked each of us about his movements on the night of the crime. 14. Someone will serve refreshments. 15. People must not leave bicycles in the hall. 16. Members may keep books for three weeks. After that they must return them. 17. The burglars had cut an enormous hole in the steel door. 18. I've bought a harp. They are delivering it this afternoon.

Active to passive
Exercise 2: Put the following into the passive, mentioning the agent where necessary. Where there is an indirect and a direct object, make the indirect object the subject of the passive verb. They gave her a clock. She was given a clock. The gerund after certain verbs is replaced in the passive by should be + past participle: They advised employing part-time workers. They advised that part-time workers should be employed. 1. They feed the seals at the zoo twice a day. 2. Who wrote it? 3. Compare clothes which we have washed with clothes which any other laundry has washed. 4. He expected us to offer him the job. 5. They showed her the easiest way to do it. 6. Lightning struck the old oak. 7. Titian couldn't have painted it as people didn't wear that style of dress till after his death.

8. A jellyfish stung her. 9. The author has written a special edition for children. 10. Judges used to carry sweet herbs as a protection against jail-fever. 11. What did he write it with? ~ He wrote it with a matchstick dipped in blood. 12. An uneasy silence succeeded the shot. 13. Did the idea interest you? 14. The lawyer gave him the details of his uncle's will. 15. Beavers make these dams. 16. They used to start these engines by hand. Now they start them by electricity. 17. Most people opposed this. 18. Students are doing a lot of the work. 19. The Prime Minister was to have opened the dry dock. 20. They recommended opening new factories in the depressed area.(Use should.) 21. The closure of the workshops will make a lot of men redundant. 22. Anyone with the smallest intelligence could understand these instructions. 23. We will not admit children under sixteen. 24. Boys of sixteen to eighteen are to man this training ship. 25. A rainstorm flooded the gypsies' camp. 26. The howling of wolves kept him awake all night. 27. They suggested making the tests easier. (Use should.) 28. Children couldn't have done all this damage.

Passive to active
Exercise 3: Turn the following sentences into the active voice. Where no agent is mentioned one must be supplied. School notice: This door must be kept shut. Students must keep this door shut. 1. This speed limit is to be introduced gradually. 2. The runways are being lengthened at all the main airports. 3. It is now 6 a.m. and at most of the hospitals in the country patients are being wakened with cups of tea. 3. Byron is said to have lived on vinegar and potatoes. 4. By tradition, any sturgeon that is caught by British ships must be offered to the Queen. 5. This notice has been altered. 6. The owners went away last March and since then their houseboat has been used continuously by squatters. (Use a continuous tense and omit continuously.) 7. The damaged ship was being towed into harbour when the towline broke. 8. Have a lift put in and then you won't have to climb up all these stairs. 9. Last year a profit of two million pounds was made in the first six months but this was cancelled by a loss of seventeen million pounds which was made in the second six months. 10. Evening dress will be worn. 11. The ship was put into quarantine and passengers and crew were forbidden to land.

12. Someone will have to be found to take her place. 13. He was made to surrender his passport. 14. This rumour must have been started by our opponents. 15. My paintings are to be exhibited for the first time by New Arts Gallery. 16. This scientific theory has now been proved to be false. 17. The car which was blown over the cliff yesterday is to be salvaged today. 18. The house where the dead man was found is being guarded by the police to prevent it from being entered and the evidence interfered with. 19. Why wasn't the car either locked or put into the garage? 20. It is being said that too little money is being spent by the government on roads. 21 Your money could be put to good use instead of being left idle in the bank. 22. For a long time the earth was believed to be flat. 23. This copy hasn't been read. The pages haven't been cut. 24. The stones were thrown by a student, who was afterwards led away by the police. 25. Carrier pigeons are said to have been used by early Egyptian and Greek sailors. 26. The referee was being escorted from the football field by a strong police guard.

I. Put the verbs in brackets into the passive:

The Harbour in Ringkobing

The harbour and pier (1)(construct) in 1904-1905 when the lighthouse Mr. Lyngvig Fyr was under planning, for the materials had to (2)(ship) across the fjord to the building site. For some years, the new harbour improved conditions for the fishermen. A boat- builders yard (3)(establish) , and several fish exporters opened businesses in Ringkobing. Today the harbour (4) (use) mainly by pleasure craft and fjord fishing boats. Occasionally, a smallish freighter or cutter may moor at the pier. If a coaster (5) (sight), it will be one of the North Sea shipyard. Several ships (5) (build) there every year. Every day at 9:30 a.m. an auction (6) (hold) at the new red wooden building at the harbours edge. There is no shortage of fish. Everything (7) (catch). The fish (8) (sell) to the highest bidder and everybody is welcome to bid. The fish auction is a lively affair and (9) (attend) every day by both local people and visitors.

II. 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.

III. Decide which word or phrase (A-C) best fits each space: Youre Under Arrest
Dale Wash paid the cashier what he owned for the gallon of milk and left the convenience store. As he approached his streets, he heard sirens wailing. They seemed 1 closer and when Dale looked in his rearview mirror, he saw the flashing lights of a patrol car. He pulled over to let it go by. But he 2 when the police car pulled over behind him. Whats the matter, sir? Dale asked as the officer approached his car. Please get out of the car. the officer said. Dale complied and 3 to put his hands behind him. As the officer got out his handcuffs, Dale 4 exclaiming: Whats this all about? A convenience store at the corner of Main and Park Streets 5 about fifteen minutes ago. Your car 6 leaving the scene. I was at the convenience store, Dale said, but all I did was buy some milk. Thats not the story I 7 , the police officer said. Now, get in the back of the patrol car. You .8 straight to prison, where youll spend 100 year at haid labor.

1. A: to be getting 2. A: surprised 3. A: was told 4.A: is being heard 5. A: robbed 6. A: was being seen 7. A: told 8. A: was taken

B: to have got B: was surprised B: will be told B: was heard B: was robbed B: was seen B: have been told B: will be taking

C: to get C: got surprised C: told C: had heard C: have been robbed C: had been seen C: having told C: will be taken

IV. Underline the correct form of the verbs:

It was a hot summer day in a large industrial city. The temperature had soared into the 90s and the humidity was just as high. It soft, gentle breeze (1) would have been welcome/was welcome, but never came. Instead the air (2) was felt/feeling heavy, and people reacted strongly. Their eyes teared, their throats (3) were hurned/hurning and their lungs (4) became congested/congesting. Some (5) had to be rushed/having rushed to hospitals, others (6) were forced/were being forced to stay inside. The same scenario began repeating itself in city after city throughout the country. Air pollution which (7) was brought about/was been brought by increased industrial development, was affecting peoples health. They became angry that air pollution was ruining their lives and felt that the government should do something about it. People from various states claimed that pollution (8) should be controlled/will be controlled.

V. Match the two columns:

1.Baker was a home builder 2.He was hired 3.Material worth 7,311 dollars had been purchased 4.A suit 5.The homeowners claimed the Statue of Frands as a defence, judgement for whom and why? a). who also engaged in home remodeling. b). when the homeowners went bankrupt. c). proving that no written contract had ever been made or signed by the parties. d). to reconstruct a portion of a home. e). was brought on the contract.

VI. Complete the text using the active or passive forms of the verbs from the box:
load set return forget go lock take pick

Mickey made some purchases at Sears Roebuck and Company that the was to pick up at the store loading deck. While1 the goods into his car, he 2 his briefcase containing 589,71 dollars on the loading dock and 3 it. The briefcase 4 by a Sears employee and

5 inside. The next day the briefcase 6 to Mickey, but the money 7 Mickey contended that the defendant was liable because, as a bailee, the briefcase 8. In a safe place. to contend= a argumenta bailee= garant

VII. Identify the errors and correct them. Tick the correct lines.
A third trend indirectly affecting school order is the increasing sensitivity of public schools to the rights of children. A generation ago it was possible for principals to rules schools autocratically, to suspend or expel students without much regard for procedural niceties. Injustices occurred; children are pushed out of schools because they antagonized teachers and principals. But this arbitrariness enabled school administrators to control the situation when serious misbehaviour was occurred. Students assaults on teachers punished so swiftly that such assaults were almost unthinkable. Even disrespectful language was unusual. Today, as a result of greater concern for the rights of children, school officials required to observe due process in handing student discipline. 1 . 2.. 3. 4. 5. 6 7 8 .. 9 . 10 11 .. 12 . 14 .

VIII. Turn into the passive voice. Pay attention to the preposition following the verbs:
1. Grannie was ill so they send for the doctor. 2. All the members of the board objected to the chairmans suggestion. 3. Finally the opponents have arrived at an agreement. 4. The morning newspaper will comment upon the terrorist attack. 5. The audience were carefully listening to the professors interesting lecture. 6. Her parents insisted on her applying for a nurse job. 7. Parents must look after their babies all the time. 8. The jury awarded the prize to the best student. 9. The strong wind blew that womans hat off. 10. He is shutting up his house at the seaside for the winter.

IX. Causative verbs

Match the two columns to make up sentences: Model: My blouse was washed yesterday. I had my blouse washed yesterday. 1. 2. 3. 2. 3. 4. 5. car blouse tooth walls watch carpet shoes a). painted b). cleaned c). repaired, washed, checked d).altered, washed, mended e).pulled checked f). fixed g). mended

6. hair 7. dress 8. laundry 9. photos 10. suits

h).cut, brushed, combed i).shortened, lengthened, washed j). washed k).developed l).made, ironed

X. Rephrase the following sentences.

1. The teacher is calling the roll. The roll 2. Susie lost her money on a side road. Money.. 3. Father gave the order to the waiter. The waiter.. 4. The police have investigated the case for two months. The case.. 5. The secretary types the letters and sends them by morning post. The letters 6. The journalists often interview political leaders. Political leaders.. 7. They say that famous people wear very expensive clothes. Famous people. 8. They are building a new town hall this year. A new town hall 9. The dentist pulled his tooth out. His tooth 10. The old woman fed crumbs to the pigeon. The pigeons.. 11. The guide is showing exhibits to the tourists. The tourists.. 12. They will give the result to the applicants waiting outside for the building. The applicants 13. Mr. Brown always gives flowers to his wife on their wedding anniversary. Mrs. Brown.. 14. The manager was promised a salary rise to his employees. A salary rise 15. She handed her application form to the deputy manager. Her application form. 16. They read carefully the instructions before using the equipment. The instructions You have been asked to prepare a short biography of Ilie Nastase for a movie magazine. Read the notes below and write sentences using the Passive voice. Make all the necessary changes: 1. Ilie Nastase- called Nasty for his flamboyand and on court behaviour. 2. born july, 19, 1946

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3. The 1972 U.S. Open and the 1973 French open- win 4. He was No. 1 twice (1972-73)- consider the best Romanian tennis player. 5. Active presence in the senior tour- many singles and doubles titles- win 6. His tennis- based thrillers- write- in French include Break Point and The Wet 7. In 1996 make- unsuccessful run for mayo of Bucharest 8. Thanks to Ion Tiriac and Ilie Nastase- tennis- become very popular among the Romanious be played- both teenagers and adults.

XII. Rewrite these sentences in the Passive. 1. Buses take the commuters home each evening. 2. They put the saddles on their horses and went for a ride. 3. Parents dont make their children work very hard at home nowadays. 4. You can admire the beautiful scenery from our house. 5. He will send his car abroad. 6. Smoke filled the dinning-room. 7. The headmaster has sent the students to the library. 8. Someone has stolen my purse. 9. A van will bring the milk to your hotel. 10. The Manager wrote the reply letters.
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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