Ex.4. Put the sentences into the Passive voice.

Ex.4. Put the sentences into the Passive voice.

1. She found the envelope at last behind the dining-room clock.

2. I bought this book a weak ago a week ago.

3. A great artist painted this picture.

4. John broke the window the other day

5. The mob broke all the shop windows in recent riots.

6. They rang the church bells as a flood warning.

7. It is high time someone told him to stop behaving like a child.

8. The judge gave him two weeks in which to pay the fine.

9. An uneasy silence succeeded the shot.

10.They showed her the easiest way to do it.

11.Lightning struck the old oak.

12.A jelly-fish stung her.

13.Did the idea interest you?

14.They used to start these engines by hand.

15.Who wrote it?

 

Ex. 5. Put the sentences into the Passive voice.

1. I shall post this letter tomorrow.

2. They will discuss your report next week.

3. The secretary will change our time-table in a week.

4. Tom will meet us at station.

5. Someone will serve refreshments.

6. The lawyer will give him the details of his uncle’s will.

7. The closure of the workshops will make a lot of people redundant.

8. We will not admit children under sixteen.

9. She will wear an evening dress.

10.The organisers will exhibit the paintings till the end of the month.

11.They will say nothing more about the matter.

12.The police will interview him tomorrow.

13.We shall discuss this problem later.

14.What measures shall we take?

15.I shall send him this report tomorrow.

Ex 6. Mixed Tenses. Put the sentences into the Passive.

1) a) They told me an interesting story yesterday.

b) They offered him a cup of tea.

c) They promised us a interesting book.

d) They pay him regularly.

e) They will show us some new magazines.

f) They teach the children French and German.

g) They gave him an invitation card to the party.

h) They granted him the film a long term credit.