Name: _______________________________ Student ID #: ______________ Date: ___________ EXERCISE 6. Write passive voice sentences in present continuous. 1. Sheila is making a pot of coffee. _________________________________________________________________ 2. My father is washing the car. ___________________________________________________________________ 3. Farmer Joe is milking the cows in the barn. ________________________________________________________ 4. She is taking a picture of him in front of the thinker. _________________________________________________ 5. I am writing a poem for my girlfriend. ____________________________________________________________ 6. We are not decorating the house for the holidays this year. ____________________________________________ 7. He is not recommending anybody for the open position. ______________________________________________ 8. Is she preparing the reception hall for the party? ____________________________________________________ 9. Are they buying news cars and trucks for the company? ______________________________________________ 10. Is she watering the flowers that are on the table? ____________________________________________________ EXERCISE 7. Write passive voice sentences in past continuous. 1. We were working on Francis’s car for 4 hours on Saturday. ___________________________________________ 2. He was presenting the new product line when the power went out. ______________________________________ 3. She was cooking dinner when we ran out of gas. ____________________________________________________ 4. I was repairing their bikes when their father showed up with new ones. __________________________________ 5. They were mopping the floor when I slip and feel. __________________________________________________ 6. We were not painting the gate when I arrived. ______________________________________________________ 7. You were not using the car when I asked to borrow it. ________________________________________________ 8. He was not feeding the dogs correctly. ____________________________________________________________ 9. Were they using the machines when you visited the plant? ____________________________________________ 10. Were they making coffee this morning because it smelled very good? ___________________________________________________________________________________________ EXERCISE 8. Select the sentence that uses the best form or mark equal if there is no difference. 1. a) He sells cars for a living. b) Car are sold for a living. 2. a) The blue car is no longer available, it has been sold. b) The blue car is no longer available, a salesman has sold it. 3. a) In the summer, more ice-cream is eaten than in the winter. b) In the summer, people eat more ice-cream than in the winter 4. a) She calls her grandparents every Friday. b) Her grandparents are called every Friday. 5. a) The letters are only typed on letterhead by Karina. b) Karina only types the letters on letterhead. 6. a) He takes his medicine every day. b) His medicine is taken every day. 7. a) Jane isn’t taken to school by her father in the mornings. b) Jane’s father does not take her to school every morning. 8. a) The bathrooms are cleaned at least every two hours. b) The janitorial service cleans the bathroom at least every two hours 9. a) Banks loan money to people. b) Money is loaned to people by banks. 10. a) Milk is kept cold in the refrigerator. b) The refrigerator keeps the milk cold. EXERCISE 9. Rewrite the sentences in past perfect form of the passive voice. 1. I had worn those blue shoes several times. _________________________________________________________ 2. Joe had cleaned the tables before the guest arrived. __________________________________________________ 3. We had lost the key many times before we bought the key box. ________________________________________ 4. They had started the rumor before the facts were collected. ____________________________________________ 5. I had called various painters to paint the house. _____________________________________________________ 6. I had not closed the window the night the bugler broke in. ____________________________________________ 7. They had not refunded my money so I made an official report. _________________________________________ 8. Nobody had noticed me all day. _________________________________________________________________ 9. Had she solved the problem? ___________________________________________________________________ 10. Had he recorded that song before? _______________________________________________________________ EXERCISE 10. Using the chart provided from page 19, change the sentences from active to passive voice, or vice versa. 1. The company president announced many changes. __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. Tammy lost the dog! __________________________________________________________________________________ 3. The parts are being sent at this moment by our shipping department. __________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Thirty more people were laid off last week. __________________________________________________________________________________ 5. All the documents have been mailed to your office by our secretary. __________________________________________________________________________________ EXERCISE 11. Complete the paragraph using the words in the parenthesis in the proper active or passive form. If production (plan) properly, we would’ve seen better results. Despite that, yesterday, the ` president of the company (send) a memorandum to all the employees describing some (do) our best effort. It’s obvious that he remedial actions and encouraging us to (try) to motivate us, hoping that the bad results (not / repeat). “Soon, (see) as the motivation to improve”, he said while describing bad performances from the past some of the new plans for the company. The sales team (implement) since last month, and marketing (develop) new strategies, which (launch) a new campaign next Monday. EXERCISE 12. Rewrite the following passages in the passive voice using the correct tenses. a) Some people saw a UFO in the sky above London last night. They reported it to the police. The army sent a helicopter to look at it more closely. The UFO shot the helicopter down and killed both men in it. People have given photographs of the UFO to the police. Experts are looking at them now. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ b) Someone broke into a local jeweler shop yesterday. The owner had just locked up the shop when a robber with a gun threatened him. The robber told him to unlock the shop and give him all the diamonds in the safe. Then the robber tied him up. The police have organized a search for the robber. They hope they will find him in a few days. Doctors are treating the owner of the shop for shock. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ c) My uncle painted this picture. Someone has offered him a lot of money for it. He will deliver the painting tomorrow. When they give him the money, he will tell them the truth. He painted it one night while he was sleepwalking. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________________________ d) Our school is organizing a contest. The teachers will choose the best project about the environment. The students must include pictures and drawings in their projects. The students will also have to do all the writing themselves. The school will give the winner a set of encyclopedias. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ EXERCISE 16. Write passive voice sentences using facts from your personal life (school, home, city, work, etc.) Use ten of the tenses described in unit 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
