Ex.4. Put the sentences into the Passive voice.
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- We use the infinitive after modal verbs and a number of other verbs. The passive infinitive is to be done / to have done.
- Ex. 1. Find the passive verbs in this text. What tenses are they?
- Ex. 2. Underline all the passives.
- Ex.4. Put the sentences into the Passive voice.
- Ex. 9. Put the verbs in brackets into the Present Simple or Present Progressive Passive.
- Ex. 13. Complete the text with expressions given below.
- Ex. 14. Open the brackets, using the correct form in the Passive.
- Ex. 18. Put the verbs in brackets into a suitable tense in the passive.
- Ex. 20. Rewrite these sentences in the Passive.
- Ex 22. Put the verb in brackets into the Past Simple, the Past Continuous and the Past Perfect in the Active or in the Passive Voice.
- Ex. 26. Put the sentences into the passive voice.
- Passive verbs with prepositional objects
- Ex. 31. Put the sentence with a verb + preposition/adverb combination into the passive.
- Ex. 33. Express in the passive the second of each of the following pairs of sentences. Do not mention the active subjects. The first two sentences are done for you.
- Ex. 38. Rewrite these verbs as passives, keeping them in the same tense, and removing they, we, someone, etc.
- Ex. 40. Rewrite the sentences, putting the underlined verbs into the Passive. Make any other changes necessary.
- Ex. 42. Read this information about what happened to the Watsons.
- Passive structures of the verbs
- Ex. 46. Change the structure using the Passive Voice.
- Ex. 49. Most of the sentences contain one mistake. Correct it of write “right”.
- Ex. 52. Use passive or active, in any appropriate tense, for the verbs in brackets.
- Ex. 53. Supply the required passive forms of the verbs in brackets.
- Ex. 54. Use the required passive forms.
- Ex. 55. Use the required active or passive tense forms.
- Ex. 56. Translate into English.
- Ex. 58. Translate into English.
- Ex. 62. Choose the best way of continuing after each sentence.
- A) Rewrite these instructions, using simple commands instead of the passive.
- Complete these sentences using a passive construction. Only use by if it’s natural to do so.
- Turn these newspapers headlines into radio news headlines. (Informal, spoken form.)
- Ex. 66. Practice saying these sentences and answer the questions.
- Ex. 68. You are telling a friend some news. Use the notes and write each sentence in the Present Perfect, active (has done) or passive (has been done).
- Group work. Match the two columns. Then make a sentence for each, using the passive. Look at the example first.
- The formation of the passive voice………………. . . 1
- Progressive forms……………………………………. . 11
- AIDS kills Freddie's 2 lovers. Star's dead lovers
- Phone call of terror. Gay life ended 7-year affair
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.
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