Grammar

ENGLISH BASICS
PASSIVE VOICE (Part 1)
Exercise 1  Make passive sentences using the word parts and the given tense.
1. The window – open (present perfect)
2. Her room – paint (past progressive)
3. He – take – to the airport (present perfect)
4. The bike – repair – at the moment (present progressive)
5. The story – often tell – by grandmother (present simple)
6. The novel – write – a hundred years ago (past simple)
7. The food – must put – in the fridge (present simple)
8. A press conference – hold – tomorrow afternoon (future simple)
9. Our new house – just – finish (present perfect simple)
10.The thief – see – by the policeman (past perfect simple)
Exercise 2  Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the verb. Use active or passive voice.
1. A lot of old songs ____________________ on the radio last week. (PLAY)
2. The President ____________________ about the coup in Central America. (JUST INFORM)
3. If I ____________________ you I wouldn't go to the meeting. (BE)
4. The bank manager told me that the house ____________________ for. (NOT PAY)
5. I ____________________ the guitar since I was in nursery school. (PLAY)
6. Margie is very happy because she ____________________ an engagement ring from her boyfriend.
(JUST RECEIVE)
7. I ____________________ after the children while the garage ____________________ (LOOK,
REPAIR)
8. When Jane came to the office, she found out that her boss ____________________. (ALREADY
LEAVE)
9. Please don't interrupt us. We ____________________ an important conversation. (HAVE)
10. I reported to the police that my stamp collection ____________________ the week before. (STEAL)
11. A short time after the pedestrian ____________________ by the car the ambulance
____________________. (HIT, ARRIVE)
12. When Mr Kennel entered the room, emails ____________________ by his assistants. (TYPE)
13. Dad ____________________ for over three weeks. (NOT SMOKE)
14. He normally ____________________ up on his own but yesterday he ____________________
by his mom. (WAKE, WAKE)
15. They usually ____________________ visitors at the hospital. (NOT ALLOW)
16. All the houses in our street ____________________ every year during the Christmas season.
(DECORATE)
17. India ____________________ independence in 1947. (GRANT)
18. They ____________________ in southern Italy since the end of the war. (LIVE)
19. I ____________________ a car by the garage so that I could drive home. (GIVE)
20. Tom's father is an excellent athlete. He ____________________ some sort of sport every day. (DO)
 Grammar
ENGLISH BASICS
PASSIVE VOICE (Part 2)
Exercise 3  Turn these sentences into passive
1. Do they teach English here?________________________________________________________
2. Will you invite her to your wedding party?______________________________________________
3. Has Tom finished the work?________________________________________________________
4. Did the teacher give some exercises?_________________________________________________
5. Have they changed the window of the laboratory?________________________________________
6. What books are people reading this year?______________________________________________
7. How did the police find the lost man?_________________________________________________
8. Who look after the children for you?__________________________________________________
9. How long have they waited for the doctor?_____________________________________________
10. What time can the boys hand in their papers?__________________________________________
Exercise 4  Turn these sentences into passive
1. They have her tell the story again.
2. John gets his sister to clean his shirt.
3. Anne had had a friend type her composition.
4. Rick will have a barber cut his hair.
5. I will get the dressmaker to make a new dress.
6. He had a mechanic repair his car.
7. She often gets the technician to maintain the heater.
8. People consider that she was the best singer that Australia has ever produced.
9. It is expected that the weather will be good tomorrow.
10. A lot of people believe that the Prime Minister and his wife have separated.
EXERCISE 5  Rewrite the following sentences in two ways without changing the original meaning.
1. A journalist reports that they are leaving Las Vegas tomorrow night.
2. The lecturer thought that Columbus never realized that he had discovered America.
3. Their parents thought that the teenagers were dancing at the disco.
4. Everybody thinks that she sings beautifully.
5. The children reported that their friends were swimming when they disappeared.
6. People believed that they had killed the animals during the night.
7. My friends think that my parents are the best parents in the world.
8. They believed the horse was a present.
9. People are thinking that drugs are very dangerous.
10. They knew that Mr. Brown was stealing iron from the Factory.