PASSIVE VOICE
EXERCISE 1. Elementary
Note: Simple construction: appropriate tense of verb "to be" with the past participle.
No agents with "by" are required in the following exercise.
Turn the following sentences into the Passive voice:
1. People always admire this picture.
2. He hurt his leg in an accident
3. Some people dress their children very badly. Some children ... *
4. No one has opened that box for the last hundred years.
5. People formerly used the Tower of London as a prison.
6. Someone has broken two of my dinner-plates.
7. They fought a big battle here two hundred years ago.
8. Somebody has invited you to lunch tomorrow.
9. People will forget this play in a few years' time.
10. Somebody built this bridge last year.
11. No one has ever beaten my brother at tennis.
12. People speak English all over the world.
13. Did anybody ask any questions about me?
14. You must write the answers on one side of the paper only
15. People mustn't take these books away.
16. They punished me for something I didn't do.
17. One uses milk for making butter and cheese.
18. Someone wants you to he1p lay the table.
19. One praises a pupil when he works hard.
20. Somebody left the dog in the garden.
* In the passive voice it is more usual to put an adverb of manner immediately in front of the
past participle it qualifies: viz.-This chair is very well made.
