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Passive Voice Exercises Rewrite The Following Sentences. Use Passives

This document provides 30 sentences written in the active voice and asks the reader to rewrite them using the passive voice. It serves as an exercise to practice transforming sentences from the active to the passive voice. Examples of rewriting sentences in the passive voice given include changing "Someone built this house 200 years ago" to "This house was built 200 years ago" and "The police will arrest the robbers" to "The robbers will be arrested by the police." The purpose is to help the reader gain proficiency in recognizing and using the passive voice in the English language.

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Passive Voice Exercises Rewrite The Following Sentences. Use Passives

This document provides 30 sentences written in the active voice and asks the reader to rewrite them using the passive voice. It serves as an exercise to practice transforming sentences from the active to the passive voice. Examples of rewriting sentences in the passive voice given include changing "Someone built this house 200 years ago" to "This house was built 200 years ago" and "The police will arrest the robbers" to "The robbers will be arrested by the police." The purpose is to help the reader gain proficiency in recognizing and using the passive voice in the English language.

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PASSIVE VOICE

EXERCISES

Rewrite the following sentences. Use passives.

1. Someone built this house 200 years ago.

2. The police will arrest the robbers.

3. They serve breakfast at 8 o’clok every day.

4. They don’t make coffee in Mexico.

5. Pierre Matie will design her costume.

6. Mary invited Paul to her birthday part.

7. Students have sent flowers to her.

8. Have they offered him a better job?

9. Do they include the service to the bill?

10. They have changed the date of the meeting.

11. Where did they put the letters?

12. People don’t use this road very often.

13. They will ask you a lot of questions.

14. The estate agent showed the house to the young people.

15. Where do they make these cameras?


16. Who gave the ring to Elizabeth?

17. Has someone put the boxes upstairs?

18. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.

19. Somebody cleans the classrooms every day.

20. We use this room for the meetings.

21. She will pay the bills.

22. Will Mr. Elliot pay the workers?

23. Do they prepare the dinner?

24. Millions of people use the internet every day.

25. John has bought the tickets for the concert.

26. Doctor Smith examined the patient.

27. They speak French at this shop.

28.    Somebody stole my car.

29.  They have sent the books to the wrong address.

30.  Somebody will bring the beer.

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