PASSIVES

The Passive Voice • Self-study exercises Bachillerato 1 The Passive Voice • Self-study exercises Bachillerato 1
1 Complete these sentences with one of the following verbs in the correct form: 3 Change these sentences from active to passive. Use a personal subject wherever
carry, check, drive, find, hear, knock, make, spend, translate, wake. possible.
Example: 1 We clean the garages every day.
The music at the party was very loud and could be heard from far away. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
1 A decision will not ……………………………… until the next meeting. 2 Someone has given him a lot of money.
2 That building is dangerous. It ought to ……………………………… down before it falls …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
down. 3 The police arrested two hundred people.
3 When you go through Customs, your luggage may ……………………………… by a customs …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
officer. 4 Paul wrote the words and John made the music.
4 I told the hotel receptionist that I wanted to ……………………………… up at 6.30. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
5 Her new book will probably ……………………………… into a number of foreign languages. 5 We check every car engine thoroughly.
6 Police are looking for the missing boy. He can't ……………………………… anywhere. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
7 Do you think that less money should ……………………………… on arms? 6 We export this computer to seventy different countries.
8 The injured man couldn't walk and had to ……………………………… . …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
9 I don't mind driving but I prefer to ……………………………… by other people. 7 We opened the factory at nine o'clock.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2 Put these sentences into the passive. 8 They send two million books to America every year.
1 People don't use this road very often. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 9 Did he give you enough sugar?
2 They're building a new ring-road round the city. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 10 No-one has ever taught the pupils to do that exercise.
3 I didn't realize that somebody was recording our voice. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 11 John Hughes built the biggest sand castle in the world.
4 They have changed the date of the meeting. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 12 They showed me the palace where the king lived.
5 Brian told me that somebody had attacked and robbed him in the street. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 13 Has anyone ever asked you to tell the story?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
14 They watered the plants and swept the floor in my absence.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
15 The Scots drink more alcohol than the Irish.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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16 Fortunately, they did not damage the machinery.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
17 They paid me a lot of money to do the job.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
18 Simon is painting the house and cleaning it.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
19 Harrison Ford played Deckerd in 'Blade Runner'.
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
4 Put the following sentences into the passive.

1 They have modernised the theatre.
2 Sanders and Company are building that house.
3 You must obey these orders.
4 We keep the documents in this drawer.
5 The director signed the letters.
6 People have known it for a long time.
7 The rescuers carried the two cold and hungry children down the mountain and took
them into a warm room.
8 They announced the arrival of the next plane over the loudspeakers.
9 Did anyone send you the photographs which they promised you?
10 They showed her carefully how to do it.
11 The doctor has ordered me a new diet.
12 Look what they have given me!
13 Poor John! A bus ran him down.
14 Publishers are bringing out new puzzle magazines all the time.
15 We must sell everything before the end of the month.
16 A man told us to wait outside.
17 Our own correspondent sent in this article.
18 Someone has put the wrong headline on this report.
19 You can see her face in every gossip column in the country.
20 You have to see it to believe it.
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16 Fortunately, they did not damage the machinery.

4 Put the following sentences into the passive.

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