Active to passive

1.You should open the wine about three hours before

you use it.
2. Previous climbers had cut steps in the ice and fixed a
rope.
3. Somebody had cleaned my shoes and brushed my suit.
4. We heat the room by electricity.
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 local boys have broken all the windows in the
new library.
12. The librarian said that they starting a new system
because the 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.(Do not change the first sentence)
19.Somone has already told him to report for duty at six.
20.People threw rotten eggs and bags of soot.
21.No one can do anything unless someone gives us
more information.
22. People are spending far more money on food now
than they spent ten years ago.
23. The organizers will exhibit the paintings till the end of
the month.
24.They will say nothing more about the matter if
someone returns the stole gun.
25.It is high time someone told him to stop behaving like
a child.
26.A thief stole my dog and brought him back only when
I offered 20 rewards for him.
27.the judge gave him two weeks in which to pay the
fine.
28.Moles make these little hills.

Passive Voice: Active to passive

1.We feed the seals 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 that 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 dry dock.
19.The Prime Minister was to have opened the dry dock.
20.they are to court-martial him.
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 think that a scientist should teach science but
that any idiot can teach history.
28.Bears couldn't have done this. Bears don't eat people .
(Make only the first verb passive)