THE PASSIVE VOICE – PRACTISE 2

Transform these sentences into the passive

PRESENT SIMPLE

1. John receives many phone calls

Many phone calls are received by John

2. Rachel answers WhatsApp messages all day

3. My aunt drives me to school every day

4. Students decorate the classroom with posters, projects and photos

PRESENT CONTINOUS

5. I am writing some passive sentences right now

6. They are using computers to make homework

7. The sales assistant isn’t selling this type of smart phone at the moment

8. We are learning to work online these days

PAST SIMPLE

9. Leonardo DaVinci painted the Mona Lisa

10. My mum locked the door from the inside last night

11. The taxi driver took your friends to the airport

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12. Supermarket workers baked the bread yesterday

PAST CONTINUOUS

13. Sarah was cleaning the carpet when I came in

14. Lucas was repairing the photocopier yesterday morning

15. The students were studying how to get fit at home

16. It was starting to rain while the builders were fixing the roof

PRESENT PERFECT

17. I have warned you on this subject several times

18. Some factories have polluted the river with poisonous chemicals

19. A bee has just stung me

20. He has never visited a foreign country

PAST PERFECT

21. A neighbour had reported the murder before you called the police

22. I hadn’t known that good news

23. They had cooked a delicious cake before we came back home

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24. My dog had slept ten hours by the time we got home

FUTURE SIMPLE – WILL

25. I will mark your tests

26. Isabella will write the article for next week’s issue

27. You will wear that beautiful dress for the party

28. Students will leave school earlier today

TO BE GOING TO

29. She going to buy a new computer for the online learning

30. The most famous designer in the world is going to design the shoes for my

wedding

31. The teachers at my school are going to miss us for the rest of the academic

year

32. We aren’t going to feed the pigeons at the square tonight

FUTURE PERFECT

33. She will have finished her Maths problems by the end of the week

34. They will have changed the colour of their hair

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35. People all over the world will have changed the vision of the world

36. The baby will have crawled many km by the time he learns to walk

FUTURE CONTINUOUS

38. The adventurers will be climbing up the Everest at this time next year

39. Your sister will be studying Biotechnology at University

40. My students will be sending this task by the end of this week

MODALS

41. We must keep ice cream in the freezer

42. Children mustn’t feed the animals in the zoo.

43. You should update your mobile phone regularly

44. She can draw beautiful landscapes

MODAL PERFECT

45. She could have learnt a lot of new techniques

46. You should have studied at least two foreign languages

47. They might have bought a new car

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48. Suri can’t have met a new boyfriend during the quarantine confinement

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