Workbook: Relatives

M.E. Machado Ruiz

Workbook: Relatives

M.E. Machado Ruiz

Direct and Reported Speech

M.E. Machado Ruiz

1. Rewrite the sentences in the passive

1. The road sweepers sweep the streets every day.
2. Someone murdered the minister.
3. You can see this sort of advert everywhere.
4. A Mr Jones has bought the house next door.
5. Someone has opened this letter!
6. Smoke filled the room.
7. We must write to him.
8. He gave her a present.
2. Rewrite the sentences in the passive, omitting the words in brackets.
1. (Everyone) knows this fact very well.
2. (They) opened the theatre only last month.
3. (People) will soon forget it.
4. (You) must write the answers in ink.
5. (Someone) has taken two of my books.
3. Complete the sentences with a passive construction, using the verbs given and in the form suggested.
1. Much of London (destroy) by fire in the seventeenth century. (Past simple)
2. The man who (bite) by a snake (give) a serum. (Past perfect, past simple)
3. A leader should be a man who can (respect). (Infinitive)
4. Many slums (demolish) to make way for new buildings. (Present continuous)
5. The police (instruct) to take firm action against hooligans. (Present perfect)
4. Rewrite the sentences using the passive form of the verbs in italics.
1. They gave up the search after three hours.
2. They ought to have pointed that out to me at the very beginning.
3. No one brought up that question at the meeting.
4. Someone should look into the matter.
5. It was clear that the parents had brought the child up well.
5. Rewrite the sentences in the passive, making the words in italics the subject of the sentence.
1. They gave the oldest councillor the freedom of the city.
2. They denied access to the secret documents to all but a few.
3. Someone showed the child how to use the telephone.
4. They declared him 'persona non grata' and allowed him only forty-eight hours to leave the country.
5. They gave him artificial respiration.
6. Rewrite the sentences in an alternative passive form, beginning with the words in italics.
1. It is said that he is an honest, hard-working man.
2. It is considered that this surgeon is a brilliant practitioner.
3. It is now thought that some redundancies in the Company are inevitable.
4. It was proved that the statements he had made were false.
5. It was understood that the delegation was keen to meet the British Prime Minister.
7. Rewrite the sentences using a form of have or get with the past participle of a suitable verb.
1. You should arrange to install central heating before winter comes. (have)
2. He is arranging for an artist to paint his wife's portrait. (have)
3. They were made man and wife in 1980. (get)
4. Five years later, they were no longer man and wife. (get)
5. Drive carefully if you don't want to risk the police endorsing your license again. (have)
8. Rewrite in the passive the sentences or clauses containing a verb in italics.
1. Never before had they sent anyone to prison for that particular crime.

Workbook: Relatives

M.E. Machado Ruiz

Workbook: Relatives

M.E. Machado Ruiz

Direct and Reported Speech

M.E. Machado Ruiz

2. They could make the law effective only in this way.

3. People said that no one could reach any agreement on this question.
4. The army put down the rebellion and declared martial law.
5. He wanted them to treat the information as confidential.
9. Rewrite in the active the sentences or clauses containing a verb in italics.
1. The plan hadn't been at all well thought out by the leader.
2. It ought to have been made quite clear to the shareholders before the annual meeting was held that they
would not be allowed to vote for a new Board by proxy.
3. Your lawyer's advice should have been obtained before any decision was made by you for the matter to be
taken further.
4. He needn't have been caused so much distress by being told by the army authorities that his brother had died
in action, as it was later discovered that a mistake had been made as to the missing man's identity.
1. Rewrite the sentences in the passive
1. The road sweepers sweep the streets every day.
2. Someone murdered the minister.
3. You can see this sort of advert everywhere.
4. A Mr Jones has bought the house next door.
5. Someone has opened this letter!
6. Smoke filled the room.
7. We must write to him.
8. He gave her a present.
2. Rewrite the sentences in the passive, omitting the words in brackets.
1. (Everyone) knows this fact very well.
2. (They) opened the theatre only last month.
3. (People) will soon forget it.
4. (You) must write the answers in ink.
5. (Someone) has taken two of my books.
3. Complete the sentences with a passive construction, using the verbs given and in the form suggested.
1. Much of London (destroy) by fire in the seventeenth century. (Past simple)
2. The man who (bite) by a snake (give) a serum. (Past perfect, past simple)
3. A leader should be a man who can (respect). (Infinitive)
4. Many slums (demolish) to make way for new buildings. (Present continuous)
5. The police (instruct) to take firm action against hooligans. (Present perfect)
4. Rewrite the sentences using the passive form of the verbs in italics.
1. They gave up the search after three hours.
2. They ought to have pointed that out to me at the very beginning.
3. No one brought up that question at the meeting.
4. Someone should look into the matter.
5. It was clear that the parents had brought the child up well.
5. Rewrite the sentences in the passive, making the words in italics the subject of the sentence.
1. They gave the oldest councillor the freedom of the city.
2. They denied access to the secret documents to all but a few.
3. Someone showed the child how to use the telephone.
4. They declared him 'persona non grata' and allowed him only forty-eight hours to leave the country.
5. They gave him artificial respiration.

Workbook: Relatives

M.E. Machado Ruiz

Workbook: Relatives

M.E. Machado Ruiz

Direct and Reported Speech

M.E. Machado Ruiz

6. Rewrite the sentences using a form of have or get with the past participle of a suitable verb.
1. You should arrange to install central heating before winter comes. (have)
2. He is arranging for an artist to paint his wife's portrait. (have)
3. They were made man and wife in 1980. (get)
4. Five years later, they were no longer man and wife. (get)
5. Drive carefully if you don't want to risk the police endorsing your license again. (have)
7. Rewrite in the active the sentences or clauses containing a verb in italics.
1. The theatre was opened last month.
2. I have been robbed!
3. The meeting will have to be put off till later in the week.
4. A really suitable applicant will be offered a high salary.
5. The seals are fed at the zoo twice a day.
6. Who was it written by?
7. We were expected to offer him the job.
8. She was shown the easiest way to do it.
9. The old oak was struck with/by lighting
10. She was stung by a jellyfish

10. Put the following sentences into the active, mentioning the agent where necessary.
1. The theatre was opened last month.
2. I have been robbed!
3. The meeting will have to be put off till later in the week.
4. A really suitable applicant will be offered a high salary.
5. The seals are fed at the zoo twice a day.
6. Who was it written by?
7. We were expected to offer him the job.
8. She was shown the easiest way to do it.
9. The old oak was struck with/by lighting
10. She was stung by a jellyfish
11. A special edition for children has been written.
12. What was it written with?
11. Turn the following sentences into the passive voice. Where no agent is mentioned one must be supplied.
1. They are to introduce this speed limit gradually.
2. They are lengthening the runaways at all main airports.
3. It is now 6 a.m. and at most of the hospitals in the country nurses are wakening patients with cups of tea.
4. Someone has altered this notice
5. Guests will wear evening dress

Workbook: Relatives

M.E. Machado Ruiz

Workbook: Relatives

M.E. Machado Ruiz

Direct and Reported Speech

M.E. Machado Ruiz

6. They made him surrender his passport.

7. Your opponents must have started the rumour
8. We ask customers to ensure that we've given them the correct change before leaving the shop.
9. Fire destroyed much of London in the seventeenth century.
9. The reporter withheld information about the source from which he had obtained the startling news
12. Put the following sentences into the passive, mentioning the agent where necessary.
1. The seals are fed at the zoo twice a day.
2. Who was it written by?
3. We were expected to offer him the job.
4. She was shown the easiest way to do it.
5. The old oak was struck with/by lighting
6. She was stung by a jellyfish
7. A special edition for children has been written.
8. What was it written with?
9. On his being informed that he was wanted by the police, the man realized that he had been betrayed by his accomplice