Exercise 14

Change the Active to Passive.

Example:

• Alex is preparing that report.

• That report is being prepared by Alex.

1. Two horses were pulling the farmer’s wagon.

2. Is Mr. Brown painting your house?

3. Someone was making the coffee when I walked into the kitchen.

4. Professor Rivers is not teaching that course this semester.

5. When are you meeting your business partners?

6. Commercials are advertising goods and services on TV.

7. The secretary was typing the letter.

8. The teacher is giving a test in the next room right now.

9. The teacher is asking us to use the passive.

10. The personnel manager was interviewing some applicants.

The Passive: Perfect Tenses

Exercise 15

What has been done?

An old street in Merton has been modernized.

Use the words from the box to write what has been done in the Present Perfect Passive.

Build

Widen

Paint

Plant

Provide (x2)

Pull down

Put up

Repair

Take away

Turn into

Example:

• The street has been turned into a pedestrian zone.

1. Street lamps ____________.

2. Trees and flowers ________.

3. The pavement _____.

4. A fountain __________________________________________________.

5. Litter bins __________________________________________________.

6. The bus stop _______________________________________________.

7. The old house _______________________________________________.

8. The shops __________________________________________________.

9. The hotel in the road ___________________________________________.

10. Benches ___________________________________________________.

Exercise 16 What had been changed?

When the pupils went back to school after the summer holidays, a lot of things had been changed.

Write the words in brackets in the Past Perfect Passive.

Example:

• New desk had been bought (buy).

1. A lot of trees _____ (plant).

2. New lights _____ (put in).

3. The classrooms _____ (paint).

4. A tennis court _____ (build).

5. The fence _____ (taken down).

6. Five new classrooms _____ (add).

7. New equipment _____ (buy) for the chemistry lab.

8. Showers _____ (install) in the changing rooms.

9. New blackboards _____(put up) in the classrooms.

10. The whole school _____ (modernize).

Exercise 17

Can you match the form of the Passive in each sentence with the name of the Passive Tense.

Example:

Were you asked?Present Indefinite Passive

I am invited Past Indefinite Passive

1. Is Greek spoken? Present Perfect Passive

2. The room hadn’t been cleaned.

3. She won’t be asked. Past Perfect Passive

4. Has the window been broken?

5. She wasn’t injured. Future Indefinite Passive

6. I haven’t been informed.

7. He will be punished.

8. Has the money been found?

9. When was the house built?

10. Will I be invited?

11. English is spoken here.

12. He was killed in an accident.

13. These toys are made in China.

14. Had the parcel been opened?