Put the verbs into the correct form using Passive Voice

1. I’m going to the party tonight. I (invite) by my friend.

2. Tim didn’t go to the meeting yesterday. It (cancel).

3. After (rescue) from the river, the boys went to hospital.

4. They (take) to hospital by ambulance.

5. The car (serve) now.

6. Are you going to pick up the children? No, they (pick up) by Jack.

7. Has the new furniture arrived? No, it (deliver) yet.

8. The garden fence (repair) at the moment.

9. The poem must (learn) by heart.

10. Have you arranged the party yet? Yes, the invitations already (send).

 

Task 2

Put the verbs into the correct form using Passive Voice

1. Kevin’s car (steal) last night and he is very upset.

2. Do your cats eat a lot? No, they (feed) twice a day.

3. Can you swim? Yes, I (teach) when I was 5.

4. What is happening over here? A new cinema (build).

5. Doctors have to do a lot of work, but they (pay) well.

6. The new bridge (build) already.

7. Chinese (speak) by more than one billion people.

8. A lot of food (eat) at the party yesterday.

9. Basketball (play) all over the world.

10. The experiment (do) by the scientists at this time 2 days ago.

 

Task 3

Put the verbs into the correct form using Passive Voice

1. He (consider) to be a very good musician.

2. The instructions should (follow) very carefully.

3. Trousers (wear) by both men and women.

4. We (delay) because there was a lot of traffic this morning.

5. Don’t stay up late tonight or you (be) tired.

6. This piece of music (not record) yet. I have just composed it.

7. Breakfast (serve) from 7 to 10 a.m. every day.

8. The tables (set) before the restaurant opens tonight.

9. I have a beautiful sweater which (knit) by my granny.

10. The reports (write) by 5 o’clock tomorrow.

11. The cake (decorate) with icing.

12. Wine (make) from grapes.

13. Who a camera (invent) by?

14. A lot of people (ask) before the documentary was made.

15. The windows (close) before she left the house.

 

Task 4

Turn the following into reported speech.

1. ‘Where do you live?’ I asked her.

2. “We went to the supermarket yesterday,” they said.

3. “Where are you from” they asked me.

4. ‘He showed me his photographs last Friday,” she said.

5. “Don’t open the door” he asked me.

6. ‘Could you open your suitcase, please?’ I asked her.

7. ‘Don’t worry – it’ll be fine’ they said.

8. ‘Don’t forget to buy some bread on your way home’ she asked me.

9. “Who borrowed my book?’ he asked.

10. “It was me who broke the window,” he admitted.

 

Task 5

Turn the following into reported speech.

1. “I will come with you tomorrow,” she said.

2. ‘I must work harder,’ he said.

3. ‘I didn’t understand the meaning of the film’ he said.

4. ‘I’m afraid I can’t come this evening,’ she said

5. ‘I’m going to Spain with my sister next week,’ she said.

6. ‘I saw him yesterday but he didn’t recognize me’ he said.

7. ‘Did you pay the electricity bill?" she asked her husband.

8. ‘Why did you leave the party so early? “she asked.

9. ‘Tell me the truth’ he demanded.

10. ‘You mustn’t come home after eleven’ he forbade us.

 

Reported Speech

Table for changing Tenses

Direct Speech	Reported Speech
Present Simple	Past Simple
Present Continuous	Past Continuous
Present Perfect Simple	Past Perfect Simple
Present Perfect Continuous	Present Perfect Continuous
Past Simple	Past Perfect Simple
Past Continuous	Past Perfect Continuous
Will	Would
Can	Could
May	Might
Have to/ Has to/ Must	Had to
This	That
These Those	Those
Now	Then
Today	That day
Tomorrow	The next/ following day
The next week	The next/ following week
Yesterday	The day before
Last week	The previous week/ The week before
ago	before

Grammar exercises

Task 1

Turn the following into reported speech.

1. ‘Where do you live?’ I asked her.

2. “We went to the supermarket yesterday,” they said.

3. “Where are you from” they asked me.

4. ‘He showed me his photographs last Friday,” she said.

5. “Don’t open the door” he asked me.

6. ‘Could you open your suitcase, please?’ I asked her.

7. ‘Don’t worry – it’ll be fine’ they said.

8. ‘Don’t forget to buy some bread on your way home’ she asked me.

9. “Who borrowed my book?’ he asked.

10. “It was me who broke the window,” he admitted.

 

Task 2