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    PASSIVE VOICE-self-study Exercises: 1. Put These Sentences Into The Passive. 1 People Don't Use This Road Very Often

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    The document provides exercises to practice changing sentences from active to passive voice. It includes examples of sentences in their active form and potential rewrites of those sentences in the passive voice using different verb tenses and subjects. The exercises are intended to help learn how to identify and transform active voice sentences into equivalent passive voice constructions.

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    PASSIVE VOICE- self-study exercises

    1. Put these sentences into the passive.


    1 People don't use this road very often.
    People didn’t used this road very often
    2 They're building a new ring-road round the city.
    They are being builded a new ring-road round the city.
    3 I didn't realize that somebody was recording our voice.
    I didn’t realize that somebody was being recorded our voice.
    4 They have changed the date of the meeting.
    They have been chanced the date of the meting.
    5 Brian told me that somebody had attacked and robbed him in the street.
    Brian told me that somebody had been attacked and robbed him in the street.

    2. Change these sentences from active to passive. Use a personal subject wherever
    possible.
    1 We clean the garages every day.
    We had/ have cleaned ( or: have been cleaned/ should have been cleaned/ will be
    cleaned/ were being cleaned/ are going to be cleaned ) the garages every day.
    2 Someone has given him a lot of money.
    Someone has been given (or: should have been given/ was being given/ is being
    given/ will be given/ is going to be given) him a lot of money.
    3 The police arrested two hundred people.
    The police has been arrested (or: should have been arrested/ was being arrested/ is
    being arrested/ will be arrested/ is going to be arrested) two hundred people.
    4 Paul wrote the words and John made the music.
    Paul has been wrote (or: should have been wrote/ was being wrote/ is being wrote/
    will be wrote/ is going to be wrote) the words and John has been made (should have been
    made/ was being made/ is going to be made) the music
    5 We check every car engine thoroughly.
    We had/have been checked (or: should have been checked/ were being checked/
    are being checked/ will be checked/ are going to be checked) every car engine thoroughly.
    6 We export this computer to seventy different countries.
    We had/ have exported (or: should have been exported/ were being exported/ are
    being exported/ will be exported/ are going to be exported) this computer to seventy
    different countries).
    7 We opened the factory at nine o'clock.
    We have been opened (or: should have been opened/were being opened/ is going
    to be opened) the factory at nine o’clock.
    8 They send two million books to America every year.
    They have been send (or: should have been send/ are being send/ are going to be
    send/ will be send) two million books to America every year)
    9 Did he give you enough sugar?
    Did he has been give (or: should have been give/ is being give/ will be give) you
    enough sugar?
    10 No-one has ever taught the pupils to do that exercise.
    No one has ever been taught (or: should have ever been taught/ is ever being
    taught/ will ever be taught/ is ever going to be taught ) the pupils to do that exercise.
    11 John Hughes built the biggest sand castle in the world.
    John Hughes has been built (or: should have been built/ is being built/ is going to be
    built/ will be built) the biggest sand castle in the world.
    12 They showed me the palace where the king lived.
    They have been showed (or: should have been showed/ is going to be showed/ will
    be showed/ were being showed) me the palace where the king lived.
    13 Has anyone ever asked you to tell the story?
    Has anyone ever been asked (or: should have ever been asked/ is ever going to be
    asked/ will ever be asked/ was being asked) you to tell the story?
    14 They watered the plants and swept the floor in my absence.
    They have watered (or: should have been watered/ were being watered/ will be
    watered/ are going to be watered) the plants and have swept (is going to be swept/ were
    being swept/ will be swept) the floor in my absence.
    15 The Scots drink more alcohol than the Irish.
    The Scots had been drink (or: should have been drink/ are going to be drink/ were
    being drink/ will be drink) more alcohol than the Irish.

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