PASSIVE VOICE
Task 1.Open the brackets using Present, Past or
Future Simple Passive.
1. Bread (to eat) every day. 2. The letter (to receive)
yesterday. 3. Nick (to send) to Moscow next week.
4. I (to ask) at the lesson yesterday. 5.I (to give) a
very interesting book at the library last Friday. 6.
Many houses (to build) in our town every year. 7.
This work (to do) tomorrow. 8. This text (to
translate) at the last lesson. 9. These trees (to plant)
last autumn. 10. Many interesting games always
(to play) at our PT lessons.
Task 2. Make up sentences using Passive Voice,
mind the preposition.
E.g. We often speak about her. — She is often spoken
about.
1. We thought about our friend all the time. 2. The
doctor will operate on him in a week. 3. The
teacher sent for the pupil's parents. 4. They looked
for the newspaper everywhere. 5. Nobody slept in
the bed. 6. The neighbour asked for the telegram.
Task 3. Write the sentences using Passive Voice.
1. I bought potatoes yesterday. 2. We shall bring
the books tomorrow. 3. They are repairing the
clock now. 4. They sell milk in this shop. 5. I
have translated the whole text. 6. They broke the
window last week. 7. When I came home, they
had eaten the sweets. 8. We shall do the work in
the evening. 9. He wrote this book in the 19th
century. 10. They were playing tennis from four
till five. 11. He stole a lot of money from the
shop. 12. By six o'clock they had finished the
work.
Task 4. Open the brackets using Passive Voice.
1. I am sure I (to ask) at the lesson tomorrow. 2.
They told me that the new student (to speak)
much about. 3. The hostess said that one more
guest (to expect). 4. The newspaper said that an
interesting exhibition (to open) in the Hermitage
the next week. 5. This new dictionary (to sell)
everywhere now. 6. All the texts (to look)
through yesterday and not a single mistake (to
find). 7. Two reports on Hemingway's stories (to
make) in our group last month. Both of them
were very interesting. 8. He said that
Grandmother's letter (to receive) the day before.
9. Two new engineers just (to introduce) to the
head of the department. 10. Don't worry,
everything will be all right: the children (to take)
to the theatre by the teacher and they (to bring)
back to school in the evening.
