Passive voice exercises

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PASSIVE VOICE EXERCISE
Exercise 1: Change these sentences from active to passive:
1. The student will receive the result tomorrow.
2. The counselor has seen the student.
3. The mailman had already delivered the mail.
4. Lightening hits many tall building.
5. The students are going to hold a meeting.
6. Peter is writing the report.
7. They will discuss the matter at their next meeting.
8. People believe that someone murdered Mr. Stone.
9. People should send their complaints to the head offices.
10. They had to postpone the meeting because of illness.
11. Someone might have stolen your car if you had left the keys in it.
12. Someone accused me of stealing the money.
13. Someone is going to serve Jack breakfast in bed on his birthday.
14. Someone saw them boarding a plane for Australia.
15. No one told Lady Orville-James, Sir Richard’s wife, what had happened.
16. Someone said that she was very upset.
17. People must not leave bicycle in the hall.
18. It is high time someone told him to stop behaving like a child.
19. He expected us to offer him the job.
20. Children couldn’t have done all of this damage.
21. You need not type this letter.
22. They didn’t look after the children properly.
23. They say he is a spy.
24. They say he was a spy.
25. Someone seems to have made a terrible mistake.
26. They let her go.
27. It is impossible to predict the future accurately.

28. He like people to call him “sir”.
29. We don’t allow smoking.
30. It’s his duty to work here all night.
Exercise 2: Correct the mistakes in these following:
1. Romeo and Juliet were written from Shakespeare.
2. I can’t give you a ride because my car is repairing.
3. I were told that after been repaired, it will be as good as new.
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4. I thought that many diseases caused by smoking cigarettes.
5. We were telling to arrive by noon, but we were delay.
6. It was announce for the company president that large profits had be made.
Exercise 3: Use the verbs in suitable form:
The old building in East Street is Bradford Hall. It (1) ……………… (build) in 1827 and
today it (2)……………… (regard) as the finest Georgian building in the country.
A number of changes (3) ……………….. (make) since it (4) …………………. (build), but
the front of the building (5) ………………... (not change). Today the Hall (6 )
……………….. (own) by the City Council, and for the last ten years it (7) ………………..
(use) as a home for City Art Centre. At the moment a small art gallery (8)
……………….. (build) behind the Hall.
Exercise 4: Choose the best answer:
1. The current constitutional problem is ……….. by the top leaders in the country.
A. studying

B. being studying

C. being studied

D. been studied

C. agreeing

D. agree

2. I ……….. with you on that subject.
A. am agree

B. am agreed

3. Both domestic and imported automobiles must ……….. anti-pollution devices.
A. equip with

B. be equipped with C. equip by

D. be equipped by

4. Despite all my anxiety, I ……….. for the job I want.
A. was hiring

B. hired

C. got hiring

D. got hired

5. The Mayan Indians ……….. developed an accurate calendar more than 7 centuries
ago.
A. were

B. √

C. are

D. have been

6. “Are you interested in scuba diving?”
“Very. Undersea life is ……….. .”
A. fascinated

B. fascinating

C. being fascinating D. being fascinated

7. “Has the committee made its decision yet?”
“Not yet. They are still ……….. the proposals . ”
A. considering

B. been considered C. being considered D. considered

8. As the ferry tale goes, the prince ……….. into a frog by an evil magician.
A. turned

B. was turned

C. was turning

D. had been turning

9. Last night a tornado swept through the village. It ……….. destroyed everything in its
path.
A. √

B. was

C. was being

D. had been

10. The hospital’s air-conditioning system ……….. when the first heat of the summer
arrived.
A. had installed
had been installing

B. had been installed
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11. Something funny ……….. in my class yesterday.
A. happened

B. was happened

C. happens

D. is happened

12. Many US automobiles ……….. in Detroit, Michigan.
A. manufacture
manufactured

B. have manufactured
D. are manufacturing

C.

are

13. Many country is ……….. the pursuit of the world peace.
A. dedicating to

B. dedicated to

C. dedicating by

D. dedicated by

C. married with

D. married to

14. George is ……….. Lisa.
A. marry with

B. marry to

15. The university ……….. by private funds as well as by the tuition income and grants.
A. is supported

B. supports

C. is supporting

D. has supported

16. In some rural areas, health care ……….. by a small number of the doctors and
nurses.
A. is providing

B. is being provided C. provides

D. provided

17. When I woke up and looked outside, the ground had been lightly ……….. with a
dusting of snow.
A. covering

B. cover

C. covered

D. covers

18. It’s hard to believe that my applicant for a scholarship ……….. .

A. denied

B. was denied

C. was denying

D. had denied

C. laughing

D. to be laughing

19. I don’t like ……….. by my friends.
A. being laughed

B. to laugh

20. I wanted to change the color of my room. I had my room ………..
A. painting

B. paint

C. painted

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D. be painted