Passive Exercise

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<b>I.</b> <b>Turn those sentences into passive voice.</b>
1. The pupils are doing a lot of homework.

2. Someone broke into the house and took away the TV set.
3. People speak English everywhere

4. We shall have to take the car to the garage

5. They didn’t tell me about the change of the program.
6. The police will have to catch the thieves tomorrow.
7. The scientists are examining the new spaceship.

8. They had eaten the meal before they finished their conversation
9. You must do your homework right now.

10. Our pupils have been making preparations to meet the new comers.
11. He wondered why we hadn’t invited him before

12. By this time tomorrow they will have taken all their exams
13. They have just bought their daughter a new bike

14. Can you please shoe me the way to the police station

15. The milk man brings the milk to my door but the postman leaves the letters in the hall
16. You must keep dogs on leads in the garden

17. Paint covered the lock.

18. Nobody could answer the teacher’s question correctly
19. They invited jack but they didn’t invite Tom

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25. They are going to put him in prison for debt
26. They had threatened her before sending her home
27. Who wrote this novel?

28. I am sure people will laugh at your silly questions
29. If you have not done it, then I will do it

30. Do not speak until someone ask you

31. You can book your plane tickets at your local travel agency

32. You must check your work carefully otherwise you will never discover a mistake.
33. They might have sent him to another office

34. He used to take his son to school in his own car but now he has sold the car
35. People see him smoking a lot these days.

<b>II.</b> <b>Rewrite the following sentences, using the given words.</b>
1. They wanted us to keep this story in secret

They wanted this story

2. I hate people looking at my wife in that way
I hate

3. People believe that dolphins bring good luck
Dolphins

4. It surprised us to hear that he bought a new house
We

5. People think that exams are too hard for pupils now
It is

6. She wants the hairdresser to do her hair now
She wants to

7. It is said that his house was haunted
His house

8. Nothing will be done till they reach a decision
They’ll

9. It must have been those boys who save my dog.
My dog

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