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Active vs. Passive Voice in English
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I
Make these sentences passive. Type the passive sentence in the same line and
highlight or underline it.
1. They include drinks in the menu.
2. The wind blew my hat down the street.
3. They will find a solution to the problem by Tuesday.
4. People used to make clothes by hand.
5. Why did he open the windows?
6. Someone is painting the walls.
7. You should write the answers on one side of the paper only.
8. Sheila told me where she had bought her new jeans
9. Where do they produce whisky?
10. No one can help him
II
Put the verbs in brackets into an appropriate form of the Passive Voice.
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Much of London ........................................................ (destroy) by fire in the 17th century.
A leader should be someone who can . . .............................................................. (respect)
The police...................................................... (instruct) to take actions against thieves.
Three hundred new houses ............................................. (build) in my town next year.
"Students . . . . . ........................................................ (ask) not to eat and drink on the
buses".
6. The results of the football pools ............................................................... (know)
tomorrow.
7. I had to go to work by bus yesterday because my car ............................... (service) at the
garage.
8. Since it was opened, the new museum ................................... (visit) by thousands of
people.
9. The match had to........................................................... (postpone) because of the weather.
10. At first jeans ..................... (make) with tent canvas and . .............. (dye) blue with indigo.
III
Active or Passive Verb?
Millions of pounds worth of damage has been caused (cause) by a storm which ............................
(pass) across the north of England last night. The River Ribble ............................... (burst) its
banks after heavy rain. People ................................... (rescue) from the floods by firemen, who
................................... (receive) numerous calls for help. Wind speeds ...........................................
(reach) ninety miles an hour in some places. Roads ................................. (block) by fallen trees
and electricity lines .................................. (bring) down, leaving thousands of homes without
electricity. "Everything possible ..................................(do) to get the situation back to normal," a
spokesman .........................................(say).
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