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    Passive Voice: Rewrite Each Sentence Starting With The Word Given

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    The document provides examples of rewriting sentences from active to passive voice. It gives sentences with a specified starting word and rewrites them in the passive voice. It also provides examples of sentences with two objects and rewrites them in the passive voice in two different ways.

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    Passive Voice: Rewrite Each Sentence Starting With The Word Given

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    The document provides examples of rewriting sentences from active to passive voice. It gives sentences with a specified starting word and rewrites them in the passive voice. It also provides examples of sentences with two objects and rewrites them in the passive voice in two different ways.

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    Passive Voice transformations exercises

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    Passive Voice (1)

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    The document provides examples of rewriting sentences from active to passive voice. It gives sentences with a specified starting word and rewrites them in the passive voice. It also provides examples of sentences with two objects and rewrites them in the passive voice in two different ways.

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    Passive Voice: Rewrite Each Sentence Starting With The Word Given

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    Passive

    Rewrite each sentence Voice starting with the word given.

    1. People ate most of the food at the party.


    Most of the food was eaten at the party.
    2. Jim is painting Mary’s house today.
    Mary’s __________________________________________________________________
    3. Ann won the beauty competition.
    The _____________________________________________________________________
    4. They have raised the price of this flat considerably.
    The price ________________________________________________________________
    5. One of our students has lost this cigarette lighter.
    This _____________________________________________________________________
    6. Most of the guests had drunk a glass of champagne by midnight.
    A glass of champagne _______________________________________________________
    7. Last night someone broke into my car.
    My car ___________________________________________________________________
    8. They are redecorating her bedroom today.
    Her bedroom ______________________________________________________________
    9. Hardly anybody remembers his name here.
    His name __________________________________________________________________
    10. They are building a new cinema near here.
    A new _____________________________________________________________________
    11. They will have finished all the road works by the end of the year.
    All the road works ___________________________________________________________
    12. Nobody has collected rubbish here for weeks.
    Rubbish ____________________________________________________________________
    13. They produced this model of car 30 years ago.
    This model __________________________________________________________________
    14. The police suspect her neighbour of committing the murder.
    Her neighbour _______________________________________________________________
    15. They introduced their new product, IPad 32GB, in May 2010.
    Their new __________________________________________________________________

    Sentences which have TWO OBJECTS can be changed into the


    PASSIVE VOICE in two ways:

    He gave me a newspaper – ACTIVE VOICE


    A newspaper was given to me – PASSIVE VOICE
    I was given a newspaper – PASSIVE VOICE

    Transform these sentences into PASSIVE in two ways.

    1. They gave me two books.


    I was given two books.
    Two books were given to me.
    2. They have promised him a new bicycle.
    He ____________________________________________________________________
    A new bicycle ___________________________________________________________
    3. They will offer her a job.
    She ___________________________________________________________________
    A job __________________________________________________________________
    4. The committee had grand her $5,000.
    She ____________________________________________________________________
    $5,000 _________________________________________________________________
    5. They are showing me this place.
    I ______________________________________________________________________
    This place _______________________________________________________________
    6. They offer me the bike at the price of $150.
    I _______________________________________________________________________
    The bike _________________________________________________________________

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